Amjad Masad
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Podcast Appearances
History doesn't repeat, but it echoes.
Well, that was the outrageous thing that he asked people to do at Doge.
People were freaking out.
What are the things you accomplished this week?
He said, all you have to do is respond.
And they pushed back so hard on being accountable for their work.
But that's government for you.
I mean, government is the grossest, most incompetent form of business.
It's a complete, total monopoly.
The way he describes some of the things that they found at Doge, it's like you could never run a business that way.
Because not only would it not be profitable-
the fraud would get you arrested.
You'd go to jail for something that's standard in the government.
Right, without the big investment.
Well, what I'm hearing now is that young people are being told to not go into programming because AI is essentially going to take all that away, that you're just going to be able to use prompts.