Tales from Mainframe Modernization

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🧯 What Could Go Wrong? DOGE to Rapidly Rewrite SSA's COBOL Codebase

DOGE, a Musk-aligned “efficiency” department, plans to migrate the Social Security Administration’s COBOL-based systems to modern code like Java — in just a few months.

💬 Experts are raising serious alarms:

🔹 SSA systems serve 65M+ Americans and haven’t been overhauled since the 1980s.
🔹 COBOL is deeply embedded in core logic: SSNs, benefit payments, entitlements.
🔹 A proper migration should take years, not months.
🔹 The team pushing this effort reportedly includes inexperienced engineers who can’t read COBOL or navigate legacy mainframe architecture.
🔹 DOGE may use generative AI for code translation — without fully grasping edge cases or dependencies.

SSA insiders describe the environment as a “house of cards” — where even minor changes can break everything.

⚠️ Tech modernization must be grounded in humility, expertise, and realism — not political theater and wishful thinking.

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/what-could-possibly-go-wrong-doge-to-rapidly-rebuild-social-security-codebase/

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