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OldBoss
(46 posts)and go fix them later, if necessary.
The COBOL angle is pretty important. Now Musk is saying we pay more for Social Security benefits to dead people vs living people, up to 150 years old. This is completely false - but he’s the wealthiest man in the world who owns a large (social) media company.
From Friday 2/14 …
Elon Musk’s DOGE team may need a crash course in COBOL
https://www.fastcompany.com/91278597/elon-musk-doge-cobol-language]
snip> "Some people worry that Musk’s young engineers might blunder into the COBOL code base and make changes without understanding the full effects. Normally, any changes to the code underlying government systems has to follow a set of detailed business requirements written by other agency staffers. Any delays or downtime in these systems has direct effects on real peoples’ lives.”
"It’s also very possible that software engineers and others within the agencies will impress upon Musk and his DOGE advisers the importance of respecting established norms. But Musk and his people are, if anything, unpredictable. Should the DOGE staffers attempt to rewrite sections of the COBOL code, it could lead to unintended consequences, including major disruptions to critical government services. And unintended consequences are very possible, if not probable."
From today 2/18 …
Social Security’s COBOL Software Comes Under Scrutiny
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-cobol-software-doge-elon-musk-2032680]
The amount of sealioning from morans is off the charts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning]
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