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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months

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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse
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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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27501204

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

    More than just a good read, that’s one of the project/programming Ten Commandments.

    Can’t tell you how many times over the decades I’ve had to argue with project managers about that.

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      The best way I’ve heard it said was “if a woman can make a baby in nine months, then nine women should be able to make a baby in one month, right?”

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        That’s in the book :)

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