The coast is Livenia Published a diary Telling your time as a member of Elon Musk’s DOGWORKS. This is a brief study – Liangia’s Dodge Stont lasted for only 55 days – but it provides new details about the temporary government organization created by President Trump’s executive order.
Liveia is a famous name in the Silicon Valley, from the days to the beginning of the Pennist’s early employee as its founder. Gumroad, A platform where creators can sell their goods. He’s also a Leading seeds and angel investors.
He joined the Dodge as a software engineer of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in mid -March. What comes out of his account is that it is surprising that the government agency of 473,000 employees had strict rules on who could be targeted, and he quickly found out that all the things in the VA were not as inadequate as he thought. He also regretted that Dodge itself is not a well -oil machine.
As a volunteer whose salary was $ 0, immediately. They should be identified and the VA should be identified, they were immediately entrusted. But he was surprised to discover aspects like seniority and the person’s experienced status (this was the VA, finally) who could be targeted. In Liangia, the performance can be reduced to the list.
He also described DOG’s consulting character Like the Mac Cancity Management Consultant and said that Dodge is not responsible for the steps taken by the RGS. “Dodge had no direct authority. The actual decisions were made by the heads of the agency appointed by President Trump, who allow for unpopular decisions as a ‘fool cow’.
This is the same way that can be deciding with the Lord this week Washington Post. Kasturi described Dodge as a “whipped boy” of Washington, DC Every unpopular decision was accused.
Liveia said he joined Dodge after running an election campaign for Bernie Sanders in 2016 as he dreamed of writing a code for the government, which helped people on a scale. Since his Dodge’s memoir didn’t take much time, he said he worked on projects that were interested in him, which included eliminating the UX of a pre -used LLM -based chatboat UX.
He said he made a long list of things in his less than two months but did not have the opportunity to do a lot of projects, such as “improving the claims of former soldiers’ filing disability or automating/sharing claims.”
And, he wrote, “I have never got the approval of sending something in production that will actually improve American lives – while saving money for US taxpayers.”
However, he was allowed to open most of his work. Its work included a tool that scanned the internal PDF for terms related to the internal PDF “DEI, gender identification, covied policies, climate measures, which is related to partnerships. That described On the toll page, as well as tools that used LLM to analyze contracts and used a tool to make the org chart.
He himself also observed the lack of organization in the Dodge. “I wondered why the central dodge software engineering playbook with all our learning is not. Overall, I was surprised by the lack of knowledge involvement within the Dodge. It seemed that every engineer had begun from the beginning.”
After he discussed he was a non -serious ax from Dodge for 55 days With a reporter of the Fast Company there his job. He wrote, “I got a boot from Dodge.” “Immediately after the publication, my access was canceled without any warning.”
However, in this FC interview, he also said that it was taught by working closely with the VA, while it was as slow as a big enterprise, it still “works”.
He says, “I would say that culture shocks are mostly many meetings, not many decisions.” “But honestly, this is something – because the government works. It is not as ineffective as I was expecting, honestly. I was expecting a much easier win.”
Its experience has engulfed the modern government agencies because they work. Although all taxpayers will like less waste, and the government can definitely benefit from more programmers drowned in the latest tech, perhaps Silicon Valley volunteers are blinking as if they were making startups from the beginning.
Liangia did not immediately respond to our request for additional comments.