Instructions for a nuclear reactor

Today’s opponent: enabling electronic invoicing. The instructions feel like a manual for assembling a nuclear reactor. It is genuinely ten thousand times easier to build a complete application ▸ 4:29.

The greatest hits: the feature doesn’t live under “electronic invoicing” but under a section called “habilitación,” which turns out to be a hidden sandbox. Forms that reset when you go to lunch. Options rendered on screen that can’t be clicked. Confirmation codes that require logging out and back in, repeatedly, with waits measured in days. Registering for anything else on the internet takes five minutes; here, enablement takes three or four days ▸ 6:20.

luchando contra la página →

The two tools that got us through

First, translation. The legal jargon might as well be written in Chinese, so the workflow became: copy the incomprehensible sentence, paste it into ChatGPT, get the fifty-line explanation the page refused to provide ▸ 7:04. An AI in the browser tab is now standard bureaucracy equipment, like a pen.

Second, a tiebreak protocol. On whether Julia’s foreign ID could stand in for a tax ID, Gemini said yes and ChatGPT said no, get the NIT ▸ 3:23. When AIs disagree on legal questions, take the stricter answer. Sanctions are expensive; caution is free.

The reflection

Fighting this page made one thing obvious: this is one of the real reasons people never start companies. So many steps just to begin ▸ 8:46. Which is entry 6-2 confirmed from inside the swamp: every incomprehensible form is a competitor who gave up. We keep filling them…