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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Programmer Humor@programming.dev ·
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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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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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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    It would be funny except for all the old people who are going to stop getting checks and find out Musk closed their local SS office.

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      I thought they were working on establishing ss offices

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        kek

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      Agreed. But my first thought was

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    If there’s one thing you want in a website used by almost 75 million beneficiaries it’s a platform hastily put together by a crack team of geniuses–that don’t password protect databases–“in months.”

    This is gonna go very very very poorly.

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      Well maybe the beneficiaries can edit their benefits themselves?

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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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      Also a good pen is the report, we need three months for this, only to be told each week something else is more important. After the three month the question came is it finished now.

      And so 2 Years turned to 6.

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    This is going to be such a ridiculous disaster that it’d be entertaining to watch it go to shit — if it weren’t such a critical system they’re fucking with.

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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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    This is going to really help government efficiency!

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    Basically, a VBA Excel file.

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    While (people exist) {give no money}

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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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    Boomers gonna love how this turns out.

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