Potential cuts to Social Security could impact your retirement — what you can do about it.

I’m sure you’ll be fine and it’ll be even better when the system is rewritten in a month, you won’t be lost or declared dead.

Just sit back and enjoy what you voted for.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    2 days ago

    I’m less worried about the closure of offices than Musk thinking he can modernize the SSA administration’s computer systems in 3 months. None of his lackeys have ever worked on anything of this scale/complexity and I’m pretty sure none of them know COBOL since they’re apparently mostly around 25. (And retired COBOL experts likely don’t know more modern languages well enough to translate.)

    Don’t get me wrong, the public and private sectors should modernize aging, critical systems that use code written in languages almost no one under 60 has learned, much less mastered. But 3 months probably isn’t even enough time to get through the planning and hiring stage of a project like this. If it were cheap and easy to update those systems, it’d have been done already.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      2 days ago

      Even if you had the very best experts that knew COBOL and some “modern” language, along with all the right competent supporting staff (documentation, analysts, qa, ops) AND they had skilled, experienced and competent management overseeing it, doing something like that in months is just probably very, very difficult, if not impossible.

      If you look back over the respected literature (which means sidestep the hot-take Youtube techfluencers going gaga over rather pedestrian things in languages and tools and frameworks and so on - these dingalings are typically so far up their own rear-ends and likely to just make the same old mistakes already documented in books like Mythical Man-Month and many probably won’t read it because they think it’s about older systems, therefore irrelevant.) I doubt you’d find much support for a claim that it could be done.

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
      2·
      2 days ago

      How hard can it be? Import user list from DB, implement the calculate_pension method, integrate with paypall to send the money and you’re done. 1 month of work, 1 month for testing and 1 month to celebrate success.

    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      It’s a planned disabling of ss.

      The trepidation of news sources, or even most social media, to call it deliberate sabotage, gives them cover.

      The majority of the American public does not deal at all with this level of tech. And the small percentage of people who understand can not influence anything.