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 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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This is not how you do software and infrastructure upgrades. If Elmo and brain cell one that was not riddled with drugs he would know this.
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