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.
  • @deegeese@sopuli.xyz
    1•17 days ago

    What’s that old essay about never do a rewrite because you repeat all the same bugs that got fixed ages ago?