One funny thing about incompetence is that they don't have the competence to know that their incompetence is straightforward to verify by a competent person.
I wouldn’t describe what happened here as incompetence. As a “carioca”, I am pleasantly surprised to know that the government’s IT department is involved in AI work — even without the budget to create its own models from scratch.
Why would they care? They get their salaries and pensions and bonuses, and the tax payer is footing the bill.
You just described every single vibe coder...