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Elon Musk Secretly Working to Rewrite the Social Security Codebase Using AI (futurism.com)
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[โ€“] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I work with COBOL software. That thing is so sensitive and complex, they just piled up wrappers, and apis of all kinds on top of the original COBOL code to avoid touching it because it just works. And that software is nowhere near critical as the backend for social security.

Good fucking luck

[โ€“] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Yes, the people that think those monsters czn just be rewritten have never actually looked at how they work. After half an hour they'd have a very different opinion.