Politics @beehaw.org Chris Remington @beehaw.org 7d ago

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.

Technology @lemmy.world oakey66 @lemmy.world 7d ago

www.wired.com /story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

Programmer Humor @programming.dev cyrano @lemmy.dbzer0.com 6d ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

www.wired.com /story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

politics @lemmy.world silence7 @slrpnk.net 7d ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

www.wired.com /story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/

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They're gonna use AI to write it, and it's gonna be exactly what you expect
- The banks still use COBOL, let's have grok rewrite their software too
  
  My father-in-law is one of the last COBOL experts. Before he retired he spent 15 years training 3 people in COBOL so the business he worked for would not collapse. COBOL is irreplaceable and it is not being taught in any school in the USA.
Vibe coding facist edition
And it's gonna get compromised within a day because of bad code.

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