What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
These dumb fucks are going to have blood on their hands. I hope they all catch a bullet
"If it ain't broke, break it."
Motto of the Department Of Ultra Cool High Efficiency.
I see what you did there with the acronym. Lol
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.
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.
I'm stealing this. I'll credit you if I remember. (I won't... You'll just be "someone on Lemmy")
My proudest achievement! 😁
If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!
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.
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.
It does sound a bit like creating plausible deniability for some sketchy transactions later on.
This is absurd, they have no business doing this.
Break it, privatize it, squeeze for every penny. That's their business.
Democracy should give a ROI
"Hey we said 'rapidly', nobody said anything about it still working when we're done"
Fast, cheap, good. They're going for 1 out of 3.
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!
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.
“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.
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.
Dead people can’t protest and pressure Congress so it’s a win either way for them
Well, there goes disability for me, my full time care twin, and my siezure prone full time care sister...
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.
This schedule is ludicrous even if they cut all the Agile meetings in half and skip Sprint Grooming altogether.
Hopefully, when it’s all broken and nobody’s getting their social security payments, maybe some of them will wake up.
I would bet that there will be an "accidental" bug in the code that deletes every single Social Security account.
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.”
"Woops! Well, just reapply via this new DOGE chatbot! It rejects applications with a 100% success rate!"
They'll turn off benefits to people with opinions
For my Americans across the pond, I ask earnestly:
What could Russia do today that would cement themselves as an unparalleled oligarchy where just a few people control everything with no regard for anybody else in their country, that the US isn't already doing?
Let's hope he makes a backup first
We'll just put it all in one giant table. Think of the space savings!
Document databases are the future /s
