Not just migrate, but quickly. Move fast and break things crowd demands it.
And use AI to do it, this is going to end well
I just hate that nothing will happen to musk or trump in any US court.
Not with that attitude
Only way either will end up in court is if we begin blending billionaires, and I have little faith in that happening in the near term
Not with that attitude
It’s like they desperately want to prove how awful their ‘innovations’ are.
If you think migrating off COBOL is bad, imagine how bad moving off COBOL with AI generated code slob will be.
Ah, but you see: that’s somebody else’s problem. He’s not going to be the sucker left dealing with an unmaintainable pile of brittle slop, so it’s totally fine /s
This. And it’s not like it’s Python or something with a bunch of online / open source content that the model can be trained on. COBOL is probably the least open sourced or publicly talked about language.
Yeah this is the software management equivalent of invading Russia in the winter
Great metaphor.
Don’t worry, we’ll throw the COBOL through an LLM. I’m sure LLMs are great at cobol, since there’s an abundance of content online about COBOL for it to have been trained on /s
Oh look, even more proof he has no idea what he’s doing.
These systems are so ancient that their bugs and edge cases are expected behaviors for downstream services and applications. Properly replacing it would take years of effort, testing, validation, and communication… and this numbnuts is going to have his college interns quickly replace it by “vibe coding” something into existence with AI and flipping a switch.
I expect the goal is to break it so badly that they can justify getting rid of social security as a whole, but if I take it at face value as DOGE trying to make things more “efficient”… that change is going to cause so many problems that it would cost a magnitude more to fix the damage they did than just leaving it the fuck alone.
Don’t ever think they don’t know what they’re doing.
exactly. they want to ruin it.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAA HOLY SHIT, the sheer fucking hubris of delusion!!!
Wow, I mean, holy fuck… someone’s definitely lacing his k with something
“which would likely require the use of generative AI”. Why? Why does it “likely” need that? Have developers become stupid? Have decent analysts fallen off a cliff?
nope, but poser developers have sprung up and management is using it to negotiate the price of developers down….
the point of this is to completely break it though, there’s no way they’re stupid enough to think that might work…Do not underestimate the stupidity of a conservative just because they’re also malicious
turns out the ai apocalypse was just a bunch of psychos ruining everything by shoving vaporware ai slop into everything… welp, start a garden…
i hear you can farm infinite tilapia in a swimming pool…. and they eat anything…
As someone who was part of a team that moved a company off of a mainframe into the modern world of technology (about ten years ago). It takes years.
I guarantee that this is going to go badly. It’s going to take much longer than they think. And it’s going to be very expensive.
But I also guarantee that they don’t care. It seems they’re more than happy to weaken the US in pursuit of profit and to help Putin for some reason.
if it ain’t broke don’t fix it
They don’t intend to fix it…
So many people are missing this!
This isn’t about “fixing” anything, it is an excuse to dismantle the SSA …
It’s a common business tactic. I’ve done it myself at work.
You go in to “fix” something. You shuffle shit around, complain how complex and expensive it is, fail too fix it, then use the added expense and time wasted to justify shutting it down.
“I don’t understand this code, but I can make it better!”
That’s the sound of humiliation getting ready to visit.
Hahaha ooooh shit 🍿
Last time government people tried to mess with Social Security…
That’s going to be one hell of a prompt to write.
“Sorry Dave, I cannot do that”
Disregard programming! Acquire BSG references!
Someone should stop these DOGE people.
Luigi.
Systems that can’t go down will never be voluntarily brought down to update them.
This either results in nothing or the end of Social Security
