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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

www.wired.com

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year ago
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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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501204

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  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    Years are made of months … Good read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

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    We tried guys, really we did. The vibe coding was working but it was sabotaged by liberals and Canadians. The only option is to end social security and put the poor and elderly into workhouses or send them to the shower blocks.

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    Boomers gonna love how this turns out.

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    Calling it now - it will be written in such a way that Musk’s motley crew will be required to maintain it or update proprietary closed source components at extreme cost forever - practically guaranteeing he will always have full access to the data and be able to charge what he likes for any changes whoever takes power after Trump is gone.

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      It’s going to be written using vibe programming

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        In JavaScript ⛈️⚡⚡⛈️⛈️ (Imagine this is like, a scary thunderstorm or smth, to add atmosphere to the words, idk)

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