The two sides work on different timescales. As programmer, we build things out of thin air; the materials are very malleable. That is to say, as soon as you can think of it, we can implement it. The career public service works on the premise of certainty, where the laws and regulations defining the extent of possibilities. There’s no way that we simply invent five regulations and pass them after one brainstorming session. It doesn’t work like that. [laughs]

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