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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/kangaroo5383/statuses/114240706436615933">Jessica Lam 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎨 (kangaroo5383@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 01:12:41 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kangaroo5383" title="kangaroo5383@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/84068-48-20230103064527.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Jessica Lam 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎨" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Jessica Lam 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎨</a></section><article><p>Everyone in software have met at least one (usually many) overly confident n00b who thought he could rewrite the whole thing he didn’t understand.</p><p>Someone should send them the Joel On Software link… just unbelievable </p><p><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/" rel="nofollow">https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4808430#notice-9418243">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-03-29T01:12:41+09:00" title="Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 01:12:41 JST">about 2 months ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kangaroo5383/114240706436615933" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@kangaroo5383/114240706436615933">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: media.wired.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/">DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse</a></h5><div> from <span>Makena Kelly</span></div></header><div>Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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Jessica Lam 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎨 (kangaroo5383@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 01:12:41 JST Jessica Lam 👩🏻‍💻👩🏻‍🎨
Everyone in software have met at least one (usually many) overly confident n00b who thought he could rewrite the whole thing he didn’t understand.
Someone should send them the Joel On Software link… just unbelievable
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
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  Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

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