“If it ain’t broke, break it.”
Motto of the Department Of Ultra Cool High Efficiency.
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
Submitted 2 months ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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klu9@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I see what you did there with the acronym. Lol
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So no one will get their checks and those of us still paying in will never be able to prove how much and won’t matter we will never get those checks. Yet they will keep pulling the funds from our checks.
klu9@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I used to teach ESL to some banking IT people, COBOL programmers whose skills were still in demand half a century after COBOL came out. Because the banking systems written half century ago still work, and when it comes to handling other people’s money, breakages, mistakes and downtime are absolutely not an option.
If Musk really wanted to run government like a business, he’d do like the banks and leave a working system damn well alone.
Of course, he wants to run government like one of his businesses, into the ground like Twitter or soon Tesla.
PS The only bank they knew of implementing newer tech for handling the money was a brand new one with no existing systems the new tech might break.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 months ago
I’m stealing this. I’ll credit you if I remember. (I won’t… You’ll just be “someone on Lemmy”)
klu9@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
My proudest achievement! 😁
PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If it ain’t broke, fix it till it is!
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Let me guess.
A bunch of kids who have never seen COBOL before use AI to rewrite it all into a language they also can’t read, do the bare minimum of checks, and then run millions of payments through it.
This from the genius bar whose hard drive “overheated” when they ran a query on 60,000 records.
squishy@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Ugh that overheated shit pisses me off. Everyone decided they can just make up whatever they want and there will be no repercussions for flat out intentional lies. So annoying.
Illecors@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
It does sound a bit like creating plausible deniability for some sketchy transactions later on.
heavy@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
This is absurd, they have no business doing this.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Break it, privatize it, squeeze for every penny. That’s their business.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Democracy should give a ROI
andallthat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Hey we said ‘rapidly’, nobody said anything about it still working when we’re done”
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fast, cheap, good. They’re going for 1 out of 3.
andallthat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hahaha, good point. On the other hand, “cheap” depends on the perspective. From Musk’s it’s an incredibly cheap way to get a big payoff…huge ROI!
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
He’s going about it all wrong. Make the new system run parallel to the old system, THEN take the old system down. This is being done wrong on purpose.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 months ago
“Are You Alive Project” targeting what these operatives believe to be improper payments and fraud within the agency’s system by calling individual beneficiaries.
They won’t be when you starve seniors to death on the streets, fucking ghouls.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The problem isn’t the 1% skimming off 90% of the wealth, it is someone’s old mom or dad getting a few grand a year.
Archer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Dead people can’t protest and pressure Congress so it’s a win either way for them
singletona@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Well, there goes disability for me, my full time care twin, and my siezure prone full time care sister…
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Musk remains true to his Disney villain character and I stand by my previous wish for his fate to be:
…eaten by hyenas. Preferably hyenas he had recently betrayed to save his own skin.
At the rate were going were going to get the bad ending which is:
…Chinese bombers over Washington blotting out the sun.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This schedule is ludicrous even if they cut all the Agile meetings in half.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Hopefully, when it’s all broken and nobody’s getting their social security payments, maybe some of them will wake up.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
They’ll turn off benefits to people with opinions
cmlael67@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would bet that there will be an “accidental” bug in the code that deletes every single Social Security account.
balder1991@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Only those that criticize the government, somehow. “Oops, because of some complicated algorithm, it only affected people who posted the word ‘orange’ on social media recently.”
jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“Woops! Well, just reapply via this new DOGE chatbot! It rejects applications with a 100% success rate!”
Pirata@lemm.ee 2 months ago
For my Americans across the pond, I ask earnestly:
What could Russia do today, to cement themselves as the ultimate oligarchy where just a few people control everything with no regard for the rest of the people of their country, that the US isn’t already doing?
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Let’s hope he makes a backup first
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We’ll just put it all in one giant table. Think of the space savings!
enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Document databases are the future /s
fucktrump@lemm.ee 2 months ago
These dumb fucks are going to have blood on their hands. I hope they all catch a bullet
rustyfish@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Soon or later they will. I just hope it is more soon than later.
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 2 months ago
I remember some years ago outcry about platforms offering hitman services for bitcoins…
hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I never wish death on anybody. But I wouldn’t be in a hurry to capture the assailant
teft@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sic Semper Tyrannis