One of DOGE’s best-known workers Edward Coristine, 19, quits a month after his former boss Elon Musk’s departure
19-year-old Edward Coristine, has resigned from the US government, a White House official said on Tuesday, a month after the acrimonious departure of his former boss Elon Musk.
Last month, Reuters reported that Coristine was one of two Doge associates promoting the use of AI across the federal bureaucracy. Media outlets, including Wired which first reported his departure, revealed that Coristine had been active in a chat room popular with hackers and previously had been fired from a job following an alleged data leak.
In March, Reuters reported that Coristine had provided tech support to a cybercrime gang that had bragged about trafficking in stolen data and harassing an FBI agent.
I mean, he’s some random 19-year-old who worked for Elon before. I doubt that he’s personally done anything especially reprehensible at DOGE. The problem isn’t so much him as it is other people placing him in the role he was placed in.
If you went to work at American Airlines as a high level executive and hired a 19-year-old who worked for you at some Burger King outlet as a pilot because he’s a good guy and you know him and you think that he can learn on the job, the problem here isn’t really the 19-year-old. It’s you being wildly irresponsible with your hiring.
I wouldn’t support beating up on those people for bad decisions on the part of others.