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.
  • DJKJuicyEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    I bet they’ll do it in Waterfall too.

    Nah B. This will be Extreme Agile XP with testing exclusively in Prod. Xitter will be the code repository.

    • ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      Pair programming with Grok.

      Spotty DOGE intern developer: “what’s a for loop?”

      Grok: “Look it up yourself, noob! Holy shit do I hate Elon Musk in every fucking way!”