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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse (www.wired.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Also : it's very complex and it happens to work fine for decades.

If one day i write a code project and manage to make it work without any major issues for several decades, there is no way i attemptto rewrite it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago

Yeah, there's almost 100 years of law, case law and agency regulations built into how this software works. And they fired all the people that knew anything about it.