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
www.wired.com DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base 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.
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step 1. rewrite into spaghetti code
step 2. nobody understands the new code, so the govt has to contract elon musk for code maintenance forever
step 3. profit
So the way things already were?
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