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Let me guess.
A bunch of kids who have never seen COBOL before use AI to rewrite it all into a language they also can't read, do the bare minimum of checks, and then run millions of payments through it.
This from the genius bar whose hard drive "overheated" when they ran a query on 60,000 records.
It does sound a bit like creating plausible deniability for some sketchy transactions later on.
Ugh that overheated shit pisses me off. Everyone decided they can just make up whatever they want and there will be no repercussions for flat out intentional lies. So annoying.
"If it ain't broke, break it."
Motto of the Department Of Ultra Cool High Efficiency.
If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!
I see what you did there with the acronym. Lol
I'm stealing this. I'll credit you if I remember. (I won't... You'll just be "someone on Lemmy")
My proudest achievement! 😁
So no one will get their checks and those of us still paying in will never be able to prove how much and won't matter we will never get those checks. Yet they will keep pulling the funds from our checks.
I used to teach ESL to some banking IT people, COBOL programmers whose skills were still in demand half a century after COBOL came out. Because the banking systems written half century ago still work, and when it comes to handling other people's money, breakages, mistakes and downtime are absolutely not an option.
If Musk really wanted to run government like a business, he'd do like the banks and leave a working system damn well alone.
Of course, he wants to run government like one of his businesses, into the ground like Twitter or soon Tesla.
PS The only bank they knew of implementing newer tech for handling the money was a brand new one with no existing systems the new tech might break.
Exactly. IT folks know most large legacy businesses run on legacy code. The businesses do change the old code due to the risks.
I believe Elon thinks his team can do it. I believe he is wrong.
It took the DOT over 20 years to migrate their port of entry truck tracking system from COBOL to Oracle (god help them). That system is much simpler than social security.
Reminds me of when I worked on satellite c&c and the operating system was from the 1970s. I asked why they kept using such an ancient system and my boss said reliability was far more important than performance or optimization. It had a proven track record and on-site support calls for satellites were very expensive.
I remember seeing a doc about Wall of Death motorcycle riders. The bikes they used? Century-old 1910 Indians.
Why? Because when lives depend on it, you want a solution with the absolute fewest possible things that can go wrong. Not the latest fancy thing with all the bells and whistles.
These dumb fucks are going to have blood on their hands. I hope they all catch a bullet
Soon or later they will. I just hope it is more soon than later.
I remember some years ago outcry about platforms offering hitman services for bitcoins...
They did pardon the founder of a service like that recently…..
I never wish death on anybody. But I wouldn’t be in a hurry to capture the assailant
Sic semper tyrannis
He's going about it all wrong. Make the new system run parallel to the old system, THEN take the old system down. This is being done wrong on purpose.
This is absurd, they have no business doing this.
Break it, privatize it, squeeze for every penny. That's their business.
Democracy should give a ROI
Musk remains true to his Disney villain character and I stand by my previous wish for his fate to be:
...eaten by hyenas. Preferably hyenas he had recently betrayed to save his own skin.
At the rate were going were going to get the bad ending which is:
...Chinese bombers over Washington blotting out the sun.
“Are You Alive Project” targeting what these operatives believe to be improper payments and fraud within the agency’s system by calling individual beneficiaries.
They won't be when you starve seniors to death on the streets, fucking ghouls.
The problem isn't the 1% skimming off 90% of the wealth, it is someone's old mom or dad getting a few grand a year.
Dead people can’t protest and pressure Congress so it’s a win either way for them
For my Americans across the pond, I ask earnestly:
What could Russia do today that would cement themselves as an unparalleled oligarchy where just a few people control everything with no regard for anybody else in their country, that the US isn't already doing?
"Hey we said 'rapidly', nobody said anything about it still working when we're done"
Fast, cheap, good. They're going for 1 out of 3.
Hahaha, good point. On the other hand, "cheap" depends on the perspective. From Musk's it's an incredibly cheap way to get a big payoff....huge ROI!
Hopefully, when it’s all broken and nobody’s getting their social security payments, maybe some of them will wake up.
Well, there goes disability for me, my full time care twin, and my siezure prone full time care sister...
This schedule is ludicrous even if they cut all the Agile meetings in half and skip Sprint Grooming altogether.
I would bet that there will be an "accidental" bug in the code that deletes every single Social Security account.
Only those that criticize the government, somehow. “Oops, because of some complicated algorithm, it only affected people who posted the word ‘orange’ on social media recently.”
"Woops! Well, just reapply via this new DOGE chatbot! It rejects applications with a 100% success rate!"
They'll turn off benefits to people with opinions
Let's hope he makes a backup first
We'll just put it all in one giant table. Think of the space savings!
Document databases are the future /s
