NASA employees advised to delay responses to Musk's "what did you do" email

The irony is that the plan was either to - somehow, incomprehensibly, vet all 3 million responses - which would at minimum cost $10m - feed it as training data into some LLM, which would almost certainly make tens of thousands of mistakes at minimum.<p>That would be let alone the many other costs - including any fees to fight the uphill battle to prove the legality of this.<p>&quot;Move fast and break things&quot; is cute for a prototype when mistakes cost only time and pay dividends in experience. On a scale of government it&#x27;s like taking a bulldozer to thousands of Chesterton&#x27;s fences a day. Which is efficient, from a certain perspective...

There&#x27;s one guy whose list looks something like:<p>--4 rounds of golf --hours on the phone with my friend Vladimir --signed whatever Stephen Miller put in front me --fired a black guy and replaced him with white guy who likes me

I&#x27;d be tempted to write up a list like<p><pre><code> -Fixed 20 bugs -Understood some requirement better -Called 5 vendors -Kicked a few tickets back -Measured the size of some equipment -Utilized a new static analyzer -Stood up a new dev board -Kinetic model updated with some new parameters</code></pre>

This part from the House Speaker was pretty scary:<p>&gt; Elon has cracked the code. He is now inside the agencies. He’s created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data. And as he told me in his office, the data doesn’t lie. We’re going to be able to get the information.<p>Who knows what those algo&#x27;s are sweeping up. One thing I do know, is that the House Speaker has no idea.

Nothing sounds more like efficiency than asking every federal employees to waste time on writing a summary of their week.

Hmm not yet in one of the departments but if I write a list like - made coffe - drank coffee - fart contest on reddit - ...<p>, will I get some months of income from the agency and a layoff? I guess that would be some good income. Maybe do this for some departments and invest + party.

I was real busy last week. Long-ish list at Pastebin.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;raw&#x2F;uFkWA8C4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pastebin.com&#x2F;raw&#x2F;uFkWA8C4</a>

Resistance is normal. We saw it when he made changes to Twitter, now X. But I wouldn’t bet against Elon.<p>If I had to guess, he’s trying to get a full map of how things actually work—breaking operations down into numbers, ranking everything by importance, and then… the firings will come. When I say “he,” I don’t just mean Elon himself. I mean the whole system around him—his mind, the engineers, the massive compute power, the LLMs feeding him insights.<p>One thing is certain: he’s about to shake things up. Ray Dalio has talked about a shift in the world order, and Elon is positioning himself right in the middle of it. But he’s not looking to tear things down—he’s here to protect democracy.<p>He’s playing a different game. All in on Elon.