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by suslik 45 days ago
I see this as a balance between effort and impact. I don't know anything about politics - maybe this is how it should work - but I do know corporate IT bureaucracy. In many cases, the activation energy required to move the needle on rather trivial things just isn't worth the effor; so you look for workarounds, forgotten corners of the infra, or other rogue ways to actually do stuff. When an IT department says to me - great idea, formalize these 20 pages of requirements, death by powerpoint style, and put it in our suggestion box - I just pass on that. I suspect politics is even worse than the run of the mill corporate IT, and many people feel the same in regards to politics.
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> formalize these 20 pages of requirements, death by powerpoint style, and put it in our suggestion box - I just pass on that.

Why pass on it now? There has never been a better time in history to deal with it than today: AI can oneshot most of what you've described.

AI might write a report in 30 seconds, but the suggestion box will be emptied at the same speed as in 1960s.