Patrick Kigongo, a former employee of 18F—the widely respected government agency that provided digital services across the federal government before it was dismantled wholesale by DOGE—says that this is essentially what the agency is doing. “They’re pointing at the AI hype machine and trying to apply that to government,” he said at a meeting of federal workers and academics resisting AI and DOGE in Washington DC. “They’re overpromising and doomed to underdeliver. The AI tools they’re promoting do not exist yet