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oakey66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

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
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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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    If it fails spectaculairly who will take the blame? Will there be any repercussions at all?

    Or will Musk and Trump shrug their shoulders? Halfheartedly blame Biden for badly programming the original database then go play some golf/videogaminges?

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      I think the hope is that it fails, they don’t want social security to work.

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        “Whoops, we pushed to prod and have no backups. Sorrryyyy!”

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        Bingo

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