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Pretty sure these whiz kids engineers are writing software to analyze things like where all the money goes.

Decisions will ultimately be made and implemented by the appropriate authorities, of course.

Kids tend to miss a reasonable doubt and tend to hate sincerely. This why they are good in rapid cutting regardless of consequences. Any amount of brilliance will not compensate even 10 years of experience.

> Kids tend to miss a reasonable doubt and tend to hate sincerely

What does this even mean?

that they are more hot-headed and militant in their opinions

A 55 year old learns to keep their hot-headed militant opinions to themselves. But from my experience in the insides they’re no different. And the 55 year old has held those opinions for 40 years and they’re not gonna change.

Agree. It seems largely they are just writing code to make sense of the enormous amount of data and unravel the tangled mess that is the US federal budget.

Right, 5 guys are gonna untangle what you allege is generations of tangled mess.

Got it.

How do you know that they are largely writing code? Is that because the appropriate oversight has indicated as such? What visibility do any of us have to what they are doing? And why should we trust any result they produce?

The lack of critical thinking in this entire comment section is breathtaking?

Why would you hire top software engineers to do anything else than build software systems?

Appropriate authorities? I have little faith in that at this point.

I think that’s a bit of a naive take.

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