As if “accidentally” breaking it during this process would be a bug, not a feature.
“Oh no, we completely broke the SSA, it’s all gone. Soorrrrrryyyyyy”
Fr. They’re gonna “accidentally lose” all the records of who was receiving social security and how much they were getting, and they’re gonna make people reapply for it in person, but they have to bring their birth certificate, social security cart, passport, driver’s license with real id, 5 years of tax returns, and probably some new special certificate they start issuing to prove you’re
magaa real citizenThey’re gonna break it, then when people need to reapply, they won’t be able to because they cut funding to phone lines and ssa offices
Avoiding Gell-Mann amnesia! Unfortunately, to even get to this question you have to be expert enough in one area to see through the BS… Not a luxury everyone is afforded.
What the fuck is the rush!? They should do this, but there is zero reason to rush it unless you want people to suffer needlessly.
It’s easy. Rush to “fix” things, but break them in the process. Then tell the American people… look we tried and it’s not working! Let’s privatize! Moving all of our SS money into hedge funds and wall street scum. Welcome to Trump’s America.
Right… That’s covered in the “making people suffer needlessly” part.
His gremlins can’t chatgpt their way through the code so he wants it migrated so he can fuck with it or steal money, probably both.
I hate how accurate this probably is.
even ChatGPT agrees this is stupid:
even his own Grok is against the idea:
Between this and the other instances of Elon’s AI correctly calling a duck a duck (or rather, a Nazi a Nazi and a disinformation spreader a disinformation spreader), Elon might be able to replace himself with Grok as the head of DOGE and see significant improvements almost overnight.
Tbh, replacing our unhinged leadership with LLMs would probably make things a lot better in the near term, though not the mid or long term, as IME they tend to be way too cautious about things they shouldn’t be and way too confident about things they shouldn’t be.
In general, I agree with your conclusion. In this specific case with DOGE, I would argue otherwise.
Elon is overconfident about things he shouldn’t be (which is everything) and not cautious about anything. With a LLM being dumb as hell and confidently wrong, that’s actually not any worse than what we have now. If it somehow manages to be cautious about anything at all, it’s an honest to goodness improvement.
“Grok, do you know anything about coding in Cobol?”
Absolutely, Elon. You programmed me with all the knowledge of every coding language you know.“Excellent! Rewrite the SSA software!”
R****dead f**got pedo-guy loser. You don't know shit, I'm a really good dad who's really good at computer games!“Perfect. Push it to prod”
Busy few months coming up for Grok
It took the GIMP team 7 years to harden and release 3.0 and it’s a fucking image editing program, this guy is actually insane.
On one hand the GIMP project took so long because they have very little resources. They would certainly do it faster with more people.
On the other hand you will probably get a team of inexperienced developers picked for their loyalty to a cokehead. The overall organization has a history of confusing millions for billions and problems working with much more common stuff than COBOL.
I’ve been a programmer for around 20 years now and I can tell you with 100% confidence that this is going to be an absolute fucking disaster. I’ve built project features—not even full projects—that took months. Hell, we launch one on Monday. This would realistically take years, and after seeing how garbage the DOGE site was built, I have zero confidence in the incel team Elon scraped off his Steam friends list.
Yeah, the ideal process is something like this:
- Write a bunch of automated tests
- Rewrite a chunk that’s well tested
- Go to 1 until the project is done
I would budget a couple years. Even a smaller codebase would take more than a couple months.
Yeah, this. They need this to be completely test-driven. Build a foundation and build out/finalize in pieces. If they had an actual dev team that knew what they were doing, someone would set them straight. They also need a ton of time to gain an understanding of what every part of the existing codebase is doing.
well years are made of months
My only thought here is that they have no idea how to scope things properly. Anyone who has done rewrites or large ETLs of systems knows that initial scoping is always usually wrong. – my bet is they drag this out for the rest of the presidency where “done in months” is actually “we’re still working on it”. And maybe even after so Musk can suckle another government test.
Some of them are teenagers and the rest have the mental and emotional maturity of a teenager.
They have no clue what it takes for such a large project. Even Elon “self-driving by the end of 2014” Musk hasn’t a clue.
Except he has chainsaw mentality, not do it right mentality.
If they are genuinely stating months as a realistic timeframe then they either know nothing or are fully aware and this is a deliberate killshot.
This is the typical Elon “Fully self driving soon” of 2016.
No. It is a killshot.
He stated his resentment of social security MULTIPLE times.
Sabotage is the purpose.
You might be right. Cutting expenses and saving money, but not in the way that any normal person would want.
Bud, this isn’t “typical” anything.
Oh fuck this… I can’t even look at my own code from a year or two ago and understand what the hell I was doing.
I learned some very basic COBOL back in high school (using punch cards), and that shit was confusing as hell.
There is no possible way that this ancient codebase could be migrated by a bunch of 20 year olds in such a short amount of time.They’re just going to feed it to some LLM and then rely on the slop it outputs.
I need to stock up on popcorn for this
Whatever language is chosen will be regarded forever as worse than COBOL, regardless of its actual merits.
That’s how you know they have nobody with experience there that has their opinion being considered. No one with actual experience in the industry wouldn’t do this out of the blue and in a few months “for sure, no delays”.
I feel like there are a good six very large companies that could give firsthand accounts on why letting Elon Musk touch an important piece of software is a terrible idea.
There’s probably a few rich people who can tell you why Elon Musk and his team of 20 year olds led by Big Ballz touching government software is a great idea, especially Social Security!
