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"That’s not possible — you have 90,000 contracts,” he said. “Unless you write some code. But even then it’s not really possible.” This entirely possible with s
by mountainb 1y ago
"That’s not possible — you have 90,000 contracts,” he said. “Unless you write some code. But even then it’s not really possible.”
This entirely possible with some lawyers, some business analysts, perhaps some hospital administrative consultants, and ordinary support staff. That team might even use LLMs in some capacity but not in the way described by the article. Reviewing 90,000 hospital and other service contracts sounds like just another project for a mid-sized or big law firm; or the government. That is how those contracts were created in the first place.
This is like the meme about someone's uncle talking about how there are these 90,000 contracts that no one knows how to review because we've forgotten how to do it. If there's something America still knows how to do it's how to review tens of thousands of turgid government contracts.
- ianhawes 1y agoNot possible within the 30 day timeframe they were given.
- mountainb 1y agoWith the right teams and resources, this could be done in a shorter time. With that team and skillset there was no way to complete this in a way that did not result in a lot of contract liability to the government and other silliness.
- quickthrowman 1y agoAt 20 working days, that’s 4,500 contracts per day. How big of a team do you think it would take to review 4,500 contracts per day?
- rsynnott 1y agoQuite a big team. However, not necessarily a difficult one to staff. That said, the whole thing rests on completely artificial urgency; there's no reason that it had to be done in 30 days (and there _are_ sensible heuristic ways that it could be filtered down; for instance small contracts and those about to expire could be filtered out easily; the article mentions a $35k contract, which is definitely "not worth the bother" level). "We have a completely artificial deadline, therefore we can't do this properly, therefore we should just do a completely nonsense thing" is not a reasonable approach to doing anything.