Letter to the Editor: DOGE's Slash-and-Burn Method Not Lean Six Sigma

Letter to the editor: DOGE's slash-and-burn method not Lean Six Sigma

I was perplexed by John Pryor’s Community Voices column on DOGE and Lean Six Sigma ("DOGE is doing great work but needs perpetuation," June 4). Lean Six Sigma requires analysis and an understanding of the processes you are trying to…

DOGE used flawed AI tool to ‘munch’ Veteran Affairs contracts, report claims

Artificial intelligence tool only reviewed first 10,000 characters of government contracts to determine if it should be ‘munched’

How DOGE Created an Error-Prone AI Program to Tear Up Veterans Affairs Contracts

The faulty tool, created by a staffer with no medical or government experience, helped accelerate the gutting of the VA.

DOGE developed error-prone AI tool to ‘munch’ veterans affairs contracts

“AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this.”

ProPublica Explains How DOGE's AI Cut Support for Veterans Care - emptywheel

Even among ProPublica’s exceptional work exposing DOGE’s failures, this is notable. ProPublica used the opportunity of the disgruntled departure of an engineer named Sahil Lavingia from DOGE as an opportunity to unpack a specific task he took on, and botched. It provides valuable insight to the source of errors as Elon unleashed a bunch of coders on federal bureaucracy without the context to understand what they were doing. Lavingia joined DOGE …

ProPublica: Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

ProPublica, and once again I want to assure you I did not deliberately put these two stories together: Inside the AI Prompts DOGE Used to “Munch” Contracts Related to Veterans’ Health. “When an AI script written by a Department of Government Efficiency employee came across a contract for internet service, it flagged it as cancelable. Not because it was waste, fraud or abuse — the Department of Veterans Affairs needs internet connectivity after a…