In recent months, Elon Musk’s DOGE has attempted to hollow out America’s federal bureaucracy. After firing droves of workers and attempting to downsize prominent agencies, the billionaire-backed effort is attempting to create a new governance model that prioritizes automation.
On Friday, Wired reported that, in a flailing attempt to modernize the agency, a new ChatGPT-style bot was integrated into agency staffers’ workflows.
The Agency Support Companion is supposed to “assist employees with everyday tasks and enhance productivity,” an internal email viewed by the magazine reads. However, the chatbot does not seem to work very well. “Honestly, no one has really been talking about it at all,” a source who works at the agency told Wired.
They read the same business magazines and are probably quoting the same paid article promoting a “solution”. And there’s a high likeyhood they don’t know they’re quoting an ad.
That’s what makes me kinda sad about all this
He never gave a shit about our work or how we develop. Friday he looked at me, all worrisome, and said “we have to seriously use gitHub for everything, why don’t we use it?”
I tried to convince him several times to use gitHub for all projects. He doesn’t even remember it, never even really listened and now we get the “how could you guys work without version control, you messed up” look …
At the same time, “work from home” became a slur. He looks at me like I’m asking for money, while taking a vacation in Honolulu. Like the pandemic never happened and we had all the same output working from home, than we had in the office before. We were productive and had a much better life, not being confined most of the day in an office.