Yeah. I just read a bunch of teenage dumbasses are going to rewrite 60 million lines of Cobol code in “months”. So definitely more than a smidge: telling some in the younger generation that they are magical beings that just understand everything better than anyone that came before stinks to high heaven of cultural revolution trash.
I wonder what their little red book will be? The Shart of the Deal?
I have serious doubts about that kind of timeline, most especially for such a critical system. But since our version of Idiocracy includes such Hollywood tropes like “young people just know tech”, we are all consigned to this…I’m sure the average magoff is going to proclaim what a “genius” fElon and his techbois are all during the process, too.
Given fElon’s timeline and how many failed deliveries he’s made on things for his companies, I expect more of the same here. Sadly, he’s going to ruin a lot of people’s lives in the process…at least with his bullshit companies, no one has to opt in to that. In this case, he’s broken into our government and he’s going to impact millions who want no part in his bullshit or his stupid crew of teenage dumbasses.
According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to “rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months.” This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for all American workers and payments for all Social Security recipients. Given that the code has to track the byzantine regulations dealing with Social Security, it’s no wonder that the codebase is this large. What is in question though is whether a small team can rewrite this code “in months.” After all, what could possibly go wrong?
Yeah. I just read a bunch of teenage dumbasses are going to rewrite 60 million lines of Cobol code in “months”. So definitely more than a smidge: telling some in the younger generation that they are magical beings that just understand everything better than anyone that came before stinks to high heaven of cultural revolution trash.
I wonder what their little red book will be? The Shart of the Deal?
The way you describe it, it sounds more like Dianetics.
I have serious doubts about that kind of timeline, most especially for such a critical system. But since our version of Idiocracy includes such Hollywood tropes like “young people just know tech”, we are all consigned to this…I’m sure the average magoff is going to proclaim what a “genius” fElon and his techbois are all during the process, too.
Given fElon’s timeline and how many failed deliveries he’s made on things for his companies, I expect more of the same here. Sadly, he’s going to ruin a lot of people’s lives in the process…at least with his bullshit companies, no one has to opt in to that. In this case, he’s broken into our government and he’s going to impact millions who want no part in his bullshit or his stupid crew of teenage dumbasses.
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/2148205/doge-to-rewrite-ssa-codebase-in-months
It’s all part of the same massive con.
It’s a bunch of independent cons but they all use the same methods.