DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
www.wired.com
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.
  • @[email protected]
    6•22 days ago

    This sounds like a junior dev thing. “Why can’t we just rebuild it from scratch?” comes from a place of complete ignorance and lack of experience.

    They’re going to realize that the last 1% of work is going to take 99% of the time, and Musk (Mr. Dunning-Kruger himself) is going to quickly find himself knee deep in shit.

    I guarantee that if they release it at whatever deadline they set, it’s going to be a flaming dumpster fire. MMW.

    • @[email protected]
      2•22 days ago

      Exactly. They think they’ll run it through AI and get a fully assembled and working translation on the other side. Fucking idiotic.