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by llm_trw 587 days ago
>I’ve never thought of it being used maliciously, it’s for visibility. It would be a shitty manager that would use it that way and if they’re already shitty then this tool won’t change that.

You are a member of the intelligence community of a country, let's call it Tussia, which has been locked out of the leading kernel for military hardware in the world. Let's call that Kinux.

You know that the guy down the office has started a project to fork that kernel for your countries own internal usage. You're an over achiever and want a promotion before he gets one. You call acquisitions for 8 female agents with special training for intimacy with nerds, you also make a back up call for 8 doses of polonium in case the agents aren't successful.

In case you think the above is fiction I know a CEO of a unicorn startup who got the first part of the treatment when he was looking for seed funding.

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Yes, honestly that's so glaringly obvious that the author of the tool really ought to stop dismissing the criticism out of hand and take it seriously.

He's built a tool that generates hitlists for any competitor to use.

Did it work?
To protect the guilty, and any future books I might write on the subject, I'll leave it to your imagination.
Dont' forget the movie...
You'd basically be writing a treatise on the Peter Principle, anyway ..