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Chris RemingtonM to Politics@beehaw.org • 2 months ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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Chris RemingtonM to Politics@beehaw.org • 2 months ago
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Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
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    They’re gonna use AI to write it, and it’s gonna be exactly what you expect

    • @marduk@lemmy.sdf.org
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      The banks still use COBOL, let’s have grok rewrite their software too

      • Chris RemingtonOPM
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        My father-in-law is one of the last COBOL experts. Before he retired he spent 15 years training 3 people in COBOL so the business he worked for would not collapse. COBOL is irreplaceable and it is not being taught in any school in the USA.

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          There’s a lot more COBOL folks out there than people realize. It also is still being taught in some universities.

          UNT has an entire mainframe-focused course track:

          • BCIS 3620 - Mainframe Concepts
          • BCIS 5550 - Advanced Enterprise Systems Programming
          • BCIS 5540 - Enterprise Systems Programming

          Texas A&M has at least one COBOL class as well: https://catalog.tamusa.edu/search/?P=CISA 2354

          I haven’t checked other unis, but I suspect there are plenty more.

          That’s not to say these clowns know anything about it though, or they wouldn’t have been working for Must in the first place.

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            Interesting! I was almost certain that COBOL wasn’t being taught anymore.

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