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.
    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Been there, seen that. Ages ago, I got a customers database project on my desk. Trying to add an entry threw the server into a frenzy, from which he did not return. It was the 65537th entry…

      Many network applications break at 64512 (or a bunch less) concurrent users. Guess why.

      I’ve seen my fair shit pieces of programming in over 40 years at the keyboard…