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 cyrano   ( @cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com )  to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 9 months ago

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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 cyrano   ( @cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com )  to Programmer Humor@programming.dev · 9 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.

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

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  •  deegeese   ( @deegeese@sopuli.xyz ) 
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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.

    •  arschflugkoerper   ( @arschflugkoerper@feddit.org ) 
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      I thought they were working on establishing ss offices

      •  setVeryLoud(true);   ( @isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca ) 
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        kek

    •  cyrano   ( @cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) OP
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      Agreed. But my first thought was

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    If there’s one thing you want in a website used by almost 75 million beneficiaries it’s a platform hastily put together by a crack team of geniuses–that don’t password protect databases–“in months.”

    This is gonna go very very very poorly.

    •  affenlehrer   ( @affenlehrer@feddit.org ) 
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      Well maybe the beneficiaries can edit their benefits themselves?

  •  cyrano   ( @cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) OP
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    Years are made of months … Good read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

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      Also a good pen is the report, we need three months for this, only to be told each week something else is more important. After the three month the question came is it finished now.

      And so 2 Years turned to 6.

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    I’ve been party to dumping legacy systems and lift & shifts a few times.

    Good fucking luck.

    Knowing nothign about this, a project like this would take at least 2 years even if you are dropping a ton of use cases and dependencies.

    •  MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown   ( @MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io ) 
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      I wonder if it will be web scale

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        How does that have less than a million views? My team and I quote/use/reference it so often.

      •  wise_pancake   ( @wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ) 
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        That takes me back

      •  cyrano   ( @cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) OP
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        Every time I watch it, I giggle 🤭

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    This is going to be such a ridiculous disaster that it’d be entertaining to watch it go to shit — if it weren’t such a critical system they’re fucking with.

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    We also got fully self driving cars in 2 years though, in 2016…

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    We tried guys, really we did. The vibe coding was working but it was sabotaged by liberals and Canadians. The only option is to end social security and put the poor and elderly into workhouses or send them to the shower blocks.

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    This is going to really help government efficiency!

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    Basically, a VBA Excel file.

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    While (people exist) {give no money}

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    Someone please make a backup

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    Boomers gonna love how this turns out.

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