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Doge wants to modernize Social Security's tech: what could possibly go wrong?

16 pointsby CrankyBearabout 1 month ago

6 comments

howard941about 1 month ago
What's the reason for modernization anyway? "Because it's there" shouldn't count. I mean, what's the compelling reason?
tmalyabout 1 month ago
Chesteron&#x27;s fence comes to mind.<p>I don&#x27;t care how smart people think Elon is, there is no way to rewrite 60 million lines of Cobol and not break something.
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quantifiedabout 1 month ago
He can get it broken and then be forced out by the 130-day rule, leaving it broken...
lysaceabout 1 month ago
I posit that for doing something like this you want humans doing the work, not LLMs run by kids.<p>It also probably doesn&#x27;t hurt probably if they&#x27;re on the older side by developer standards. Or at least insanely detail-oriented and being able to take pride in doing good but kind of boring work.
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josefritzishereabout 1 month ago
They guy who blows up cars and rockets regularly should not be in charge of this.
bananapubabout 1 month ago
the american media is just completely unable to handle endless bald facing lying to their face.<p>&gt; &quot;DOGE, a made up agency the government lies about Elon Musk not running, is planning to absolutely fuck up the way that Social Security works&quot;<p>it&#x27;s much longer, but much more honest. if they actually wanted to &quot;modernise&quot; things then they&#x27;d calm the fuck down and spend three years trying to understand the current system, then design an incremental replacement.