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    oakey66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months 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

    www.wired.com

    oakey66@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months 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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      They’re not going to use Java, it’s going to be typescript.

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        Or Rust

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          You think those script kiddies know Rust?

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            No, but they want to seem cool

            And they’ll use Grok to write the code anyway 😂

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