Re:Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Af...
by ivape on Friday June 06, 2025 @09:49AM
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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.
Re:Doge Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to "Munch" Veterans Af...
by mistrial9 on Friday June 06, 2025 @10:51AM
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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.
> 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.