DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
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.
This kind of rebuild-the-complex-system-from-scratch thing is always really tempting, and generally a complete disaster.
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That is the point. He wants it to collapse. Musk has repeatedly talked about how he thinks social security shouldn't exist at all.
It makes me genuinely wonder if they're going to actually try to reprogram it or just do nothing and say they did.
Another real possibility is Musk ours a small team of three or four fresh college graduates on the job knowing that they'll fail, essentially setting them up to be the fall guys if he can't avoid repercussions.
Either way the goal is not to benefit the people who rely on social security.
Yup. The chaos is the point.