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

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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Think further back. Like late 80s to 90s IBM
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  Yeah, that’s what they said, 20 years or so ago
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    Ok this is gonna hurt. 2005 was 20 years ago

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