Comment by altacc
8 days ago
The massive difference here is that the Doge team is acting as quickly making decisions about government funding and classifications of that spending e.g. if it's a "scam". If they're supposed computer experts making incorrect decisions about something as simple as web hosting you can be sure that they're making incorrect decisions in more important topics.
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Many on the Doge team are software engineers. And calling it an audit is being very generous. Looking at the Doge feed on approved state media it's mostly just DELETE FROM Contract WHERE Description like '%DEI%'
Edward "Big Balls" Coristine's prior experience is mainly in websites. https://www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-ran-image-sharing-site
Odd question considering they didn't say that being an audit team is what makes them an expert at websites, or that they were experts at websites specifically.
> If they're supposed computer experts making incorrect decisions about something as simple as web hosting
This logic only holds if they’d have knowledge about websites, as opposed to other topics.
There’s many SDEs with long careers who would make security mistakes on websites, yet nonetheless are tech experts.
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DOGE isn't staffed with seasoned auditors (the government actually has those, and they're called Inspector Generals, and they mostly got fired by Trump); it's staffed with engineers who are supposed to be making the government "more efficient", and who are completely unqualified to determine whether something is "wasteful" or not.