this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2025
747 points (99.1% liked)

Technology

68066 readers
4663 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] frezik@midwest.social 83 points 3 days ago (6 children)

"ROFL"

Signed, everyone who has been involved in migrating a codebase before.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 34 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yep, months is a joke, doubly so when talking about tens of millions of lines of code and also COBOL specifically.

This is going to be a hilarious disaster but not so hilarious when people who need the benefits need them and won't be able to get them.

[–] dryfter@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

I'm on SSDI (and Medicaid and HUD housing) and have been having insane anxiety the last month and a half to the point that I'm wondering if I'll even get paid in April. I regularly check my SSA account online to make sure my direct deposit is still freaking scheduled. Missing a payment could mess up all of my other benefits as well.

I know the fuck up is coming, but I don't know if I can handle another few months hoping they don't fuck up the migration if they don't fuck up just paying people first with all that's been going on.

I'm pretty sure Im not the only one in this situation who can't handle the stress of this bullshit.

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

To be fair. We assume "months" means less than 2 years. But 10 years can also be "months", and is probably a more realistic timeline.

[–] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Nobody is referring to 10 years as "months".

When you're talking about multiples of years, it's going to be called years, not months. They were obviously talking about a short timeline, less than 2 years, likely less than 1 year.

They have no idea what they're talking about.

Like I said, months is a joke.

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

So was what I said. I was presenting a hypothetical way they justify their ridiculous claims by doing something else ridiculous.

But conveying tone in text is difficult, so I'm not surprised you missed what I was going for.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Okay but have you ever tried just throwing genAI at the problem and not caring about the consequences?

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

With Grok looking more and more like the only one working for Musk with enough (digital) balls to stand up to his boss, that might be better than the alternative of "Big Balls" and the rest of the Digital Oblivous Goons of Elon

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

They'll have it lobotomized in a few days.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

I mean this is a great example of what happens when you put conservative men in power who think they know what they are doing but are just going to loudly, incompetently and incorrectly re-invent the wheel while everyone else suffers from not having an actual practical solution.

[–] peteyestee@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

By rebuild I don't think they mean it's going to function the same. ...just torn apart and replaced.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

It has to function the same. It has to follow the same laws as before.

Bur more likely, they know this and it's all part of privatizing social security.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago

They have an experienced team of teenagers don't worry.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

That is the mother load of all code bases. Probably still some COBOL if not mostly cobol.