“‘“Move fast and break things” may be acceptable to someone who owns a business and owns the risk. And if things don’t go well, the damage is compartmentalized. But when you break things in government, you’re breaking things that belong to people who didn’t sign up for that,’ said Cordell Schachter, who until last month was the chief information officer at the U.S. Department of Transportation.”
h/t @anniebergin
Move fast and break things **never** meant to imply that you should be breaking things **in production**. It just means the development process is incremental and your next version may need to break before it becoms stable.. but you still dont release it until its stable.
Also doge isnt a "move fast and break things" team, they are an "im incompetent and dont even know the most fundamental aspects of the programming language this thing is built in" sort of team.
Is it possible they are competent, but the media doesn't like what they are doing so they are working to portray them as idiots?
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No, because that statement doesnt come from anything the media claimed, and frankly i avoid "the media" at all costs.
The conclusion comes from Musk and DOGE's own words, saying things that a first year programming student immediately identifies as incompetence in the programming language. For example when he remarked about 150 year old people getting SS, instantly any programmer in the language the system is written on knows that is the default value the programming language uses when a date isnt specified. So it indicates cases where no birthdate is int eh records. Despite this being very obvious to even mediocre coders apparently the entire doge team bubbled this up as a valid concern so much so that Musk felt compelled to announce it on national TV to anyone.
Trust me anyone who knows even the basics can immediately see for themselves the gross incompetence, no need for the media to do a damn thing on that one.