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.
  • samuelazers@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    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