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   Tindra (tindrasgrove@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 06:34:39 JST Tindra

   • Kevin Beaumont

   @GossiTheDog anyone who thinks modernizing is easy should talk to the peeps who dealt with the US Army’s IPPS-A.

   They failed so hard they basically ended up just making a unifying front end for multiple legacy systems, and they *still* dorked up all sorts of things.

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     Andrew Golding (huronbikes@cyberplace.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 06:35:33 JST Andrew Golding

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog hear me out: what if we rewrite it in Java... but while on copious amounts of benzos.

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     Axel Gutmann (virbonus@sueden.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 16:09:18 JST Axel Gutmann

     • Kevin Beaumont

     @GossiTheDog

     I asked #Grok: "What are the chances of success for Elon Musk's / DOGE's plan of rewriting (in two month's time) the SSA's COBOL codebase using AI?"

     "[…] the chances of success […] are extremely low, likely in the single-digit percentage range (e.g., 5-10% at best).
     This estimate assumes DOGE has exceptional resources and AI capabilities beyond what’s publicly known […] The stakes are high, and the margin for error is razor-thin."
     https://x.com/i/grok/share/n9svocmPv28oPUXlCbbJruxTS

     #Musk #DOGE #SSA #COBOL