I could definitely see this being what ends Elon and the DOGE. This guys are *way* overconfident in their abilities and screwing up the SSAs systems in a big way is what could lead to Trump being annoyed and asking Elon to ‘move on to other opportunities’ or something.
Elon has probably ~~bribed~~ bought way too much influence to get a classic Trump firing
GenerousPot on
why though
battywombat21 on
> As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, [the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found](https://oig.ssa.gov/congressional-testimony/2016-07-14-newsroom-congressional-testimony-july14-ssa-modernization/). In fact, SSA’s core programmatic systems and architecture haven’t been “substantially” updated since the 1980s when the agency developed its own database system called MADAM, or the Master Data Access Method, which was written in COBOL and Assembler, [according to SSA’s 2017 modernization plan](https://www.ssa.gov/open/materials/IT-Modernization-Plan.pdf).
This is going to be a shit show of colossal proportions.
mudcrabulous on
it would be ideal for Republicans to handle the brunt of transition work. They get the initial bug waves and fallout, democrats can pick up with a cleaner product later.
MeaningIsASweater on
Hahahahaha yeah sure they are. Talk about not knowing what you’re getting yourself into
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I could definitely see this being what ends Elon and the DOGE. This guys are *way* overconfident in their abilities and screwing up the SSAs systems in a big way is what could lead to Trump being annoyed and asking Elon to ‘move on to other opportunities’ or something.
Elon has probably ~~bribed~~ bought way too much influence to get a classic Trump firing
why though
> As recently as 2016, SSA’s infrastructure contained more than 60 million lines of code written in COBOL, with millions more written in other legacy coding languages, [the agency’s Office of the Inspector General found](https://oig.ssa.gov/congressional-testimony/2016-07-14-newsroom-congressional-testimony-july14-ssa-modernization/). In fact, SSA’s core programmatic systems and architecture haven’t been “substantially” updated since the 1980s when the agency developed its own database system called MADAM, or the Master Data Access Method, which was written in COBOL and Assembler, [according to SSA’s 2017 modernization plan](https://www.ssa.gov/open/materials/IT-Modernization-Plan.pdf).
This is going to be a shit show of colossal proportions.
it would be ideal for Republicans to handle the brunt of transition work. They get the initial bug waves and fallout, democrats can pick up with a cleaner product later.
Hahahahaha yeah sure they are. Talk about not knowing what you’re getting yourself into
COBOL vs DOGE