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DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just 'a Few Months': Report
Details are scarce, but this has the potential to be a disaster.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is planning to migrate the Social Security Administration’s computer systems from the COBOL programming language to something more modern, according to a new report from Wired. Everything from the code that issues Social Security numbers to the payment schedules are written in COBOL, which was created in the 1950s, but the DOGE team seems to believe it can make a snap transition with the help of artificial intelligence, according to Wired. Musk, who’s previously called Social Security a “ ponzi scheme,” was given enormous power by President Donald Trump to unilaterally cut anything he wants, a nakedly illegal powergrab that continues to this day, despite several court challenges.
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