The DOGE Rush Job
How do you root out fraud and waste in government? You don't do it by hiring programmers. No one associated with DOGE seems to have any idea what they're doing, and the fiasco that they're creating will only get worse. To understand why programmers are not qualified for the task they've supposedly been hired to do, you need to understand the nature of complex systems. And to understand why Elon Musk is the worst possible person for the job, you need to take a look back at Stockton Rush and the TItan submersible.
Harry Always Holds
One way to keep your systems safe from hackers was to avoid storing valuable data. Now, however, that's all but impossible. To hackers, everyone's data is highly valuable:
Burning Hundred Dollar Bills
Long ago and far away, I briefly worked on doomed software project. It was a classic example of a death march project. A very short summary is here:
