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Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 1 year ago

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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501204

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It would be funny except for all the old people who are going to stop getting checks and find out Musk closed their local SS office.
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  Agreed. But my first thought was

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