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.
Having worked in software for decades now, this is a new engineer fetish. Oh that thing that’s working over there is using the wrong old technology. Better rewrite it at massive cost and risk and at the end we will hopefully have a system that performs the exact same function.
Having worked in software for decades now, this is a new engineer fetish. Oh that thing that’s working over there is using the wrong old technology. Better rewrite it at massive cost and risk and at the end we will hopefully have a system that performs the exact same function.