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Letting go of all probationary employees (hired in the last year) is precisely the wrong way to do any of this.

I suspect we will also be hearing about the long time experts that are the only ones who maintain or know about certain systems being rehired desperately..

DOGE is frankly ruining the reputations of Silicon Valley and software engineers in a way I didn’t think possible.. they’re being very stupid about what they’re doing.

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I take you haven't seen what SV execs have been doing or saying for the last decade to think this is what is going to ruin their reputations.

You don't hire 22 year olds to do hard work. You hire them and inflate their ego so they will do things they shouldn't, without question. Maybe not there yet (?) But I fully expect these kids to do some highly illegal shit that will land them in prison or worse.

They are effectively a meat shield for Elon who is a meat shield for Trump who ignores the courts anyway.

The big tech companies seem to mostly be aligning with this stuff.

However, historically, SV’s strength has been that startups fly under the radar of the east coast, so they can bypass the corruption holding the rest of the country back.

I hope this is one of those times, because every time I check the news, another democratic or capitalist institution has been gutted or defected.

Silicon Valley and it's executives ruined their own reputations. DOGE is going on a bigger scale and ruining the United States and the federal government. SV execs think they can play god and do whatever they want, that they're the chosen few. Simply firing the probationary workers in every department has to be one of the stupidest things to ever happen to this country.

Ruining more you mean? Techbros did it to themselves and the rest of us too.

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