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Holy shit.
Just wow, wow, holy shit:
Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?
I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
@thedansimonson@lingo.lol@inthehands it’s stupid if you want social security to function. If your goal is to break it so severely that privatizing it looks appealing—which has been the prerogative of these shitheads for 40 years—then this idea is exactly in line with their goals
@thedansimonson @inthehands Priority, not prerogative. Not yet. They are def hoping to make it so, that's true.
@thedansimonson @inthehands this!!
Like, I don't understand why anybody is still trying to pretend that we're supposed to be having a "competence" argument.
a) they won the vote. They are implementing policy at astonishing rates. They are enormously competent at achieving their goals.
b) they are not even running on competence. They are running on grievances. arguing that they're doing a bad job is not how you will win people over.
c) they are very clear about their end goals. People need to stop reacting to inverted dog whistles. Stop arguing on their terms. They aren't trying to improve social security. They just say so to keep just enough naive morons quiet.
If you catch an axe murderer in the act, you don't start arguing that well akshually, he's holding a chisel. You call him a murderer.