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I’d wager your range of tech literacy/capabilities for your firm is much narrower than big tech.

toomuchtodo 4mo ago
Range != value, depending on use case. Doing more poorly does not make something better. Our customer identity capabilities are very close to login.gov (we don't have to support hundreds of agency customers and common access cards), and if its good enough for ~342M Americans, its good enough for our customer base. Broadly speaking, work for the sake of work is not valuable work. Show me outcomes for resources and time invested, and compare accordingly. Value is, again broadly speaking (there is always nuance), what you deliver. If you bring me an AI solution for a high risk high value customer journey, data flow, or code path, that is an anti pattern. If you, as a colleague or a stakeholder, put forth that we must use AI in situations that require a high degree of determinism (due to potential high cost failure modes), you will need to prove this extraordinary claim with evidence. Choose Boring Technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291215 - March 2015 (212 comments) ["Am I using this project as an excuse to learn some new technology, or am I trying to solve a problem?"] I get paid to manage risk efficiently, including being measured on time and budget spent against the success criteria, ymmv; my comp and budget is not dependent on how much AI I shove into security systems. "What am I optimizing for?" Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315583 - May 2026 (19 comments)
- fn-mote 4mo ago
  > [login.gov] if its good enough for ~342M Americans I am very curious about the actual number of users of login.gov. I am a US citizen and my experience was … negative to the point of actively avoiding it.
  - toomuchtodo 4mo ago
    > I am very curious about the actual number of users of login.gov. "Login.gov has surpassed 100 million registered user accounts. The platform facilitates over 300 million sign-ins annually and sees more than 10 million monthly active users, acting as a secure single sign-on solution across nearly 50 federal, state, and local agencies." https://www.login.gov/partners/faq/ https://www.login.gov/partners/faq/ (It is the primary identity provider for Social Security Administration, IRS will eventually adopt it [1]) [1] IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 - February 2022 (182 comments)
    - plasma_beam 4mo ago
      I have multiple login.gov accounts. They don’t let you change your primary email, so if you’re using corporate account and switch jobs the normal thing is to create new accounts. I’m sure this is padding their numbers.
      - toomuchtodo 4mo ago
        If you must use login.gov for Social Security, and you will eventually be required to use it for the IRS (and everyone who has a US tax liability), I think the numbers are somewhat irrelevant. Almost everyone over the age of 18 will be a customer of it (for federal tax and benefits logistics). It is the idp you must use, and again, it is good enough (based on all available evidence).
econ 4mo ago
Someone gained access to a Instagram account (belonging to a business by the same name) connected to a fb account (by the same name) that they still had access to. The only thing fb could do was terminate the Instagram for impersonation. It's an impressive level of incompetence.

Range != value, depending on use case. Doing more poorly does not make something better. Our customer identity capabilities are very close to login.gov (we don't have to support hundreds of agency customers and common access cards), and if its good enough for ~342M Americans, its good enough for our customer base. Broadly speaking, work for the sake of work is not valuable work. Show me outcomes for resources and time invested, and compare accordingly. Value is, again broadly speaking (there is always nuance), what you deliver. If you bring me an AI solution for a high risk high value customer journey, data flow, or code path, that is an anti pattern. If you, as a colleague or a stakeholder, put forth that we must use AI in situations that require a high degree of determinism (due to potential high cost failure modes), you will need to prove this extraordinary claim with evidence. Choose Boring Technology - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291215 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291215 - March 2015 (212 comments) ["Am I using this project as an excuse to learn some new technology, or am I trying to solve a problem?"] I get paid to manage risk efficiently, including being measured on time and budget spent against the success criteria, ymmv; my comp and budget is not dependent on how much AI I shove into security systems. "What am I optimizing for?" Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315583 - May 2026 (19 comments)

fn-mote 4mo ago
> [login.gov] if its good enough for ~342M Americans I am very curious about the actual number of users of login.gov. I am a US citizen and my experience was … negative to the point of actively avoiding it.
- toomuchtodo 4mo ago
  > I am very curious about the actual number of users of login.gov. "Login.gov has surpassed 100 million registered user accounts. The platform facilitates over 300 million sign-ins annually and sees more than 10 million monthly active users, acting as a secure single sign-on solution across nearly 50 federal, state, and local agencies." https://www.login.gov/partners/faq/ https://www.login.gov/partners/faq/ (It is the primary identity provider for Social Security Administration, IRS will eventually adopt it [1]) [1] IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30430851 - February 2022 (182 comments)
  - plasma_beam 4mo ago
    I have multiple login.gov accounts. They don’t let you change your primary email, so if you’re using corporate account and switch jobs the normal thing is to create new accounts. I’m sure this is padding their numbers.
    - toomuchtodo 4mo ago
      If you must use login.gov for Social Security, and you will eventually be required to use it for the IRS (and everyone who has a US tax liability), I think the numbers are somewhat irrelevant. Almost everyone over the age of 18 will be a customer of it (for federal tax and benefits logistics). It is the idp you must use, and again, it is good enough (based on all available evidence).

econ 4mo ago

Someone gained access to a Instagram account (belonging to a business by the same name) connected to a fb account (by the same name) that they still had access to. The only thing fb could do was terminate the Instagram for impersonation. It's an impressive level of incompetence.