Absolutely not. It wasn’t a failure, it’s job was entirely to assist other agencies modernize their tooling. As an auxiliary program, it helped others to withou

Absolutely not. It wasn’t a failure, it’s job was entirely to assist other agencies modernize their tooling. As an auxiliary program, it helped others to without taking the credit. Let me ask: are IT departments losses to you? The gov is _always_ inefficient if you consider profit to be the only indicator of success. The government isn’t here to make a buck, it is here to help its populace. The free tax filing helped its populace, modernizing the passport application process helped the populace, and doing these things (and many more) in a way that is stable without interrupting the system is extremely impressive. DOGE will not do anything useful, they aren’t adding, only removing. Elon hired children he could easily convince to do the dirty work, he will proceed to take credit for what they do (if it is good) and blame them for any bad outcomes. He knows nothing about AI other than what he’s read in pop-sci books, headlines, or sci-fi novels, so he won’t be iterating on 18f (or anything) with AI. If anything good happens, it will be in spite of this terrible person. How he has managed to maintain his smart facade to you is beyond me. The tipping point for me was when he said ‘he knew more about manufacturing than anyone alive.’ Imagine, buying a car company, hiring smart people to run it, and then believing that their collective knowledge is somehow yours. He is an insecure person who wants to look impressive and has never managed to find anything he is actually good at. He even cheats on his video games, refusing to be not at the top.