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.
  • btaf45@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Plus it will have all the usual edge case errors of software thrown together by some code monkey trying to make his “agile” arbitrary sprint deadline. Most places these days use a software development process that minimizes quality and maximizes bugs.

    Move fast to give billionaires gigantic tax cuts and break Social Security!

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Oh yea. And to speed things up, they will use AI for doing parts of the software. It will have the most bugs, and nobody really has an idea what the software does. Or how.