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37. If it ain't broke don't fix it

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Fri Mar 28, 2025, 02:18 PM

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Never been more true than in this case.

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Hi. I'm an expert in modernizing legacy government software systems. This is profoundly stupid and will definitely fail [View all] demmiblue Friday OP

LMAO I Learned COBOL On A Vax 11-780 Back In The Mid 80's... MayReasonRule Friday #1

Yup. Ms. Toad Friday #14

The Assembly Language Set Of The Vax 11/780 Was A Magnficent Beast! MayReasonRule Friday #16

I was the summer sys admin Ms. Toad Friday #18

I taught for Digital Equipment Corporation MurrayDelph Friday #21

Ahh . . . Ms. Toad Friday #23

Me, too MurrayDelph Friday #33

Same shape - Ms. Toad Friday #42

We must have been at UCLA around the same time wackadoo wabbit Saturday #45

I don't remember what system was used to teach COBOL when I learned it Klondike Kat Friday #27

I Adored Computer Science... One Of My Favorite Books As A Sophomore Was An Early Tome On Complier Optimization. MayReasonRule Friday #41

Ooops! Sorry. defacto7 Friday #2

"We had to destroy the system in order to 'save' it....." lastlib Friday #20

Ok, is the writer (not implying the OP author) of the piece just naive? harumph Friday #3

Not as easily hackable because script kiddies don't know it, can't fathom it. . . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Friday #15

Exactly what I asked here: sinkingfeeling Friday #4

The only reason to do this is for Musk to get an enormous government contract to do the work. Lonestarblue Friday #5

Eugenics. Social Security takes from Technology Development. haele Friday #22

It's not stupid if your endgame is to crash the system. IrishAfricanAmerican Friday #6

Exactly. They have zero ability to improve SSA. Girard442 Friday #38

Deliberately breaking it so it must be discarded. Bull in a china shop. lindysalsagal Friday #7

Can people in there save the code for later restoration? nt AmericaUnderSiege Friday #8

Yes...hopefully angrychair Friday #17

Elon wants to break it so he alone can fix it - for billions of dollars in fees and future contracts dalton99a Friday #9

Talk about waste, fraud, & abuse... snot Friday #10

It's planned to fail. yardwork Friday #11

Absolutely! SheltieLover Friday #34

The tech babies don't know COBOL Ms. Toad Friday #12

Honestly, how are they authorized to do this work? Prairie Gates Friday #13

This will fail angrychair Friday #19

Messing up initially is part of the plan JCMach1 Friday #24

All intentional JCMach1 Friday #25

Bank robbers pretending to fix a bank vault that is not broken. Irish_Dem Friday #26

Looks like something to keep DOGE looking busy...or as noted in the article, something worse. dutch777 Friday #28

This is Elon we're talking about Johnny2X2X Friday #29

I know nothin about computer systems-other than I want them to work. Thanks to those who gave info above. riversedge Friday #30

Remember the Twitter takeover? I watched from afar, but it sure looked like deliberate vandalism to me. Hekate Friday #31

Kick SheltieLover Friday #32

Nominee for SSA is CEO of Fiserv a payment services company kkmarie Friday #35

This project will take off like a Space X rocket Xipe Totec Friday #36

If it ain't broke don't fix it Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday #37

I absolutely agree. Profoundly stupid and will definitely fail. Jim__ Friday #39

Yep, old timer COBOL programmer here from years ago... Dan Friday #40

Musk's whole "career" features episodes of radical recoding of systems, with unpredictable results Emrys Friday #43

So are we all f**ked?? vapor2 Friday #44