DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
www.wired.com
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.
  • @geoff@lemm.eeEnglish
    3•3 months ago

    This is how you know Musk is a fraud. This far into his career and he’s leading teams into rookie mistakes.

    Or, he knows this will break it and that’s the goal. I’m just not sure how he avoids the blame.