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oakey66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago

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

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

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oakey66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 month ago
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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.
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    Okay but have you ever tried just throwing genAI at the problem and not caring about the consequences?

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      With Grok looking more and more like the only one working for Musk with enough (digital) balls to stand up to his boss, that might be better than the alternative of “Big Balls” and the rest of the Digital Oblivous Goons of Elon

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        They’ll have it lobotomized in a few days.

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