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.

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.

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.

Years are made of months … Good read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

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.

Remember when people thought Elmo knew anything?

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

Can't wait to hear how the blockchain will factor into this redesign.

Calling it now - it will be written in such a way that Musk’s motley crew will be required to maintain it or update proprietary closed source components at extreme cost forever - practically guaranteeing he will always have full access to the data and be able to charge what he likes for any changes whoever takes power after Trump is gone.

COBOL systems, when properly maintained, are highly reliable, with built-in redundancy and fault tolerance.

They can't have that because they want excuses when it goes down and leaves old people to starve and ruin their credit.

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.

This is going to really help government efficiency!

Basically, a VBA Excel file.

Boomers gonna love how this turns out.

While (people exist) {give no money}

Someone please make a backup