Another viewpoint on insanity

A workplace conversation regarding a project with a large lack of process:

Anon: "This project meets the defination of insanity, they keep doing the same thing over and over again expecting it to get better."

Me (in a flash of brilliance): "It's only insane if the process is deterministic."

What would you prefer, a structured automated process that will never work, or an ad-hoc manual process that consistently produces inconsistent results??

Maybe we could use this randomness with an evolutionary learning algorithm to get a working process?

I need more coffee.