Not just "fresh out of college", but people who think AI can solve everything. COBOL too "ancient"? Just throw AI at it! Can't write code? Throw AI at it! He literally wrote an AI prompter using AI:

> Under a time crunch, Lavingia said he finished the first version of his contract-munching tool on his second day on the job — using AI to help write the code for him. He told ProPublica he then spent his first week downloading VA contracts to his laptop and analyzing them.

This is entry/junior-level levels of incompetence being given carte blanche access to production, but where "production" includes people's livelihoods.

Did you see how two billionaires "leaders" feuded yesterday over disagreements (one was the President of the US and the other was the world's richest man)? They were the ones behind DOGE. That was the leadership behind it. We are in the fucking Twilight Zone. It's surreal.

There was a epic book about the whole Iraq situation that had the most apt title:

FIASCO

Then there are these military terms:

FUBAR - Fucked up beyond all recognition

&

TARFU - Totally and Royally fucked up

&

SNAFU - Situation Normal: All fucked up

It's the people that have been to war that seem to have the words for what's going on, no one else.

except VA is a byzantine hellhole of self-serving dysfunction. Your outrage is only partially appropriate. Anyone around the system knows this, but has various incentives whether they will say it.

Maybe there's a balance between not doing anything about the problems in the VA and ignorantly breaking in in 48 hours?