Kee HinckleyNow there's a protest sign you don't see often.
ocdtrekkie@nazgul "You can pry Visual Basic from my cold, dead hands" would be on mine. 🤣
Kevin Karhan 
Zen Zero ☯️ ◯@nazgul There’s not many as remembers how to make ‘em.
@nazgul #GraceHopper would be so proud, she'd salute that person!
Isaac Ji Kuo@nazgul Based on the replies, I'm afraid people don't realize the deadly seriousness.
Elon Musk has directed DOGE to replace the 60 million lines of COBOL code running Social Security within a few months.
This can't be done. Not with AI, not with thousands of human programmers. It's really a plan to cut/eliminate Social Security.
I should hope it goes without saying that people will die as a result.
That's the COBOL code we're talking here. Social Security.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/
Missy O
Damien
naught101
Cedar Fen Farm
Cedar Fen Farm
maco@oldoldcojote @isaackuo @nazgul and needing to carefully pick another language that has as accurate of decimal numbers
Gilbert Pilz@isaackuo @nazgul For all of my adult life anything that sounded even remotely like a threat to SS was the kiss of death for a politician's career. They've found a way around this problem. Claim to support SS while "accidentally" breaking the infrastructure on which the program depends. One can only take solace in the fact that millions of Trump's supporters will starve and/or freeze when the system collapses.
Rickyx@isaackuo @nazgul In months I don't even think it's possible to diagram and flow how 60 million lines of code behave. Let alone understand them, find the problems, devise the improvements, write everything down, and do the testing. Ah, using the ai.
I feel sorry for all the problems that will arise. But the project is more likely to fail.
But then, my nerd side is asking...
..why Java?
I feel sorry for all the problems that will arise. But the project is more likely to fail.
But then, my nerd side is asking...
..why Java?
Timothy R. Butler
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ
Tommi Nieminen@nazgul To quote George Takei, “Oh my!”
Alberto Cottica@nazgul I want to hang out with this guy!
Alexander Knochel@nazgul By the Lords of Cobol!
Tom BortelsHonestly, hands off any working code. The language is irrelevant - the operational risk is people who don't understand shit breaking things.
Chesterton's Fence: Explained
TL;DR / Summary G.K. Chesterton was an early 20th century English writer known for his clever paradoxes. He once wrote: “There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more
Mike Farley 
@nazgul this truly is a Sign of the Times.
Candason 
Melroy van den Berg@nazgul and they are protesting for what or who exactly? Banks?
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Bell' Imbusto@nazgul doge, if it works don't fix it!
Dietmar Hauser@nazgul I am in compliance with that since ca. 1996
Peter Koopman 🦣@nazgul A true programmer. I never touch Cobol code if I can avoid it. Way to risky to change those old blackboxes. 😄
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@nazgul If it ain't broke, don't fix it.