Processes look wasteful when you don't know what to look for. Large systems are more complicated then they seem. I use an analogy from childhood to convey it.

Ibrahim Diallo

A personal story about deleting .ini configuration files as a child to free up disk space, which crashed the family computer. The author draws a parallel to professional mistakes — developers deleting functions they don't understand, DBAs dropping tables — and extends the analogy to DOGE's approach of cutting government programs without understanding their purpose. The core lesson: deleting systems you don't understand causes cascading failures, regardless of scale.

Deleting Systems You Don't Understand

<p>Awesome!</p>
<p>Almost a similar experience!</p>
