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.
  • @golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12•19 days ago

    It’s when people try to have LLM’s generate code and then try to assemble the pieces produced into semi-functional, usually really bad, software I think.

    • @Bogasse@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8•19 days ago

      And I think “vibe” means that they have no experience with programming so they can’t read the code they copy.