And what qualifies a nerd and hacker to audit systems whose full impact they don’t know and whose programming language they aren’t experienced in?
Would you ask a rocket scientist to do a brain surgery?
Would you ask a rocket scientist to do a brain surgery?
How many years of training were that?
99% of the government is not that. It's paperwork, databases, forms. Not saying it's not important work, I'm saying it doesn't take a genius to look at the workflow for the vast majority of the government and understand it, and see opportunities for better efficiency.
Paperwork, with a mind-numbing set of rules you need to pay attention to, that can affect people's lives in very serious ways. Just a couple days back a guy with protected status was deported to a gulag in El Salvador by a "clerical error".
The point being DOGE people are incompetent to assess the work of a government they have zero knowledge about.
But in general people need to learn some stuff on the job. E.g. hire an 18 year old hacker and by 20 they are leading projects, debugging code, preparing for SOC compliance etc. Is possible.