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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

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  • thepowerofgeek@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

    Ah yes, a classic tale...

    "We're going to take this perfectly efficient and functional COBOL code base and rewrite it in Java! And we'll do it in a few months!"

    So many more competent people and organizations than them have already tried this and spectacularly crashed and burned. There's are literal case studies on these types of failed endeavors.

    I bet they'll do it in Waterfall too.

    It's interesting. If they use Grok, this could well be the deathknell for vibe programming (at least for now). It's just fucking traffic that their hubris will cause grief and pain to do many Americans - and cost the lives of more than a few.

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    Bold of you to assume they'll use Java and not some obscure language picked based on the need to pad their resumes.

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      Months? I don't k ow how to code, and even I know that's impossible.

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      you know they will make chatGPT do it and then not verify.

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        you know they will make chatGPT do it and then not verify.

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        Vibe Coding. I can't see a way for this to go wrong...

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        • eezyville@sh.itjust.worksE [email protected]

          How many bugs? How will they secretly siphon money to their accounts? How much access will the Russians have? Who's gonna get discriminated against?

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          It rounds to the nearest penny and the fractions of pennies that get cut off are used to buy Bitcoin for Big Balls.

          No one will even notice.

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            you know they will make chatGPT do it and then not verify.

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            They will cross-check with Grok.

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              I'm less than a decade from taking my SS early. I have already downloaded my SS deduction tables from their website in anticipation of them doing something this stupid. "Oh.. you think you are eligible for earned benefits? We can't seem to locate your contribution history... so sorry for you."

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              how do you do this? probably good for all of us to know

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                Reminds me of that thing Lex Luthor did where he sponged off rounding errors in financial transactions

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                • rikudou@lemmings.worldR [email protected]

                  Stupid term for when people who don't know how to program ask AI to generate code for them which they have no expertise to actually validate.

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                  The best commercial models did dumb stuff yesterday and I bet they'll still do dumb stuff tomorrow

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                    how do you do this? probably good for all of us to know

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                    log in to ssa.gov

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                    • eezyville@sh.itjust.worksE [email protected]

                      You mean Grok, right?

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                      Grok has said disparaging things about Elon Musk so I’m assuming it’s going to be disappeared to El Salvador soon.

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                        Australian here.

                        They are robbing you

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                          How old do you think the mainframes running Social Security are?

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                          Probably a mix of Z systems, that stuff goes back 20-odd years, and even then older code can still run on new Z systems which is something IBM brags about.
                          Mainframes aren't old they're just niche technology, and that includes enterprise Java software.

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                            My company actually wrote their flagship software in COBOL starting in the 80s, and we're only now six years into rewriting everything in a more modern language with probably four years to go.

                            I can't imagine trying to start such a project like rewriting all of Social Security and thinking it will take months. You have to be a special kind of fatuous to unironically think that.

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                            He can't be this delusional, right? It is almost like he is just trying to inflict damage?

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                              Australian here.

                              They are robbing you

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                              🌍🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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                                Reminds me of that thing Lex Luthor did where he sponged off rounding errors in financial transactions

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                                Office Space. PCLOADLTR

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                                  They're not rebuilding anything. They're just adding back doors everywhere. If anyone hasn't learned yet, these are crackpot script kiddies at best. Even If somehow control is take away from them, they are now going to definitely have to redo the entire thing to make sure none of their shit code survives.

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                                    He can't be this delusional, right? It is almost like he is just trying to inflict damage?

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                                    He's not delusional (with regard to what he's doing). He wins either way. The government crumbles, he gets to remake it in his image. He fails, he gets to claim he made the government more efficient, and the fact that it's limping along is just the result of "necessary" pruning.

                                    This is all theater. He doesn't actually care about the outcome or the American people.

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                                      Office Space. PCLOADLTR

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                                      Do you remember that one song from the sound track. Get Off My Elevator. That song kicks ass

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                                        i hope elon and the entire "doge" team dies. i really do.

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                                          The kind that thinks full self driving is two years away, perhaps?

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                                          AGI is definitely just around the corner! We just need to throw more money and the energy produced by half the country at it!

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