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.
  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
    38·
    3 days ago

    LOLOL. 100% success, I don’t see any issues with this whatsoever. Musk’s track record on such promises certainly is airtight, and his little Hitler Youth engineering team surely has this under control.

    • Alteon@lemmy.world
      13·
      3 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.