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DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse (www.wired.com)
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[–] Grunt4019@lemm.ee 17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think the hope is that it fails, they don’t want social security to work.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Whoops, we pushed to prod and have no backups. Sorrryyyy!"

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago

They'll have backups. And those backups and associated restore processes would never have been properly tested.

I've come to places where that happened and there were very few remaining IT ops people after the mass firing that followed.