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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

Tell me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings without telling me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social

NEW: DOGE is planning to migrate the Social Security Administration codebase to a new programming language. This would normally take years. DOGE wants it done in months. That could put benefits for millions of Americans at risk. Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

wired.comDOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseSocial Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
Tom Resing
@tomresing.com

Last time I made the decision to wholesale rewrite an existing codebase in a new language I was in my twenties, too! You have to be willing to make mistakes to learn. However, you need a safer space for that learning than a critical government infrastructure project.

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