“If it ain’t broke, break it.”
Motto of the Department Of Ultra Cool High Efficiency.
If it ain’t broke, fix it till it is!
So no one will get their checks and those of us still paying in will never be able to prove how much and won’t matter we will never get those checks. Yet they will keep pulling the funds from our checks.
I used to teach ESL to some banking IT people, COBOL programmers whose skills were still in demand half a century after COBOL came out. Because the banking systems written half century ago still work, and when it comes to handling other people’s money, breakages, mistakes and downtime are absolutely not an option.
If Musk really wanted to run government like a business, he’d do like the banks and leave a working system damn well alone.
Of course, he wants to run government like one of his businesses, into the ground like Twitter or soon Tesla.
PS The only bank they knew of implementing newer tech for handling the money was a brand new one with no existing systems the new tech might break.
Reminds me of when I worked on satellite c&c and the operating system was from the 1970s. I asked why they kept using such an ancient system and my boss said reliability was far more important than performance or optimization. It had a proven track record and on-site support calls for satellites were very expensive.
I remember seeing a doc about Wall of Death motorcycle riders. The bikes they used? Century-old 1910 Indians.
Why? Because when lives depend on it, you want a solution with the absolute fewest possible things that can go wrong. Not the latest fancy thing with all the bells and whistles.
I see what you did there with the acronym. Lol
This is absurd, they have no business doing this.
Break it, privatize it, squeeze for every penny. That’s their business.
Democracy should give a ROI
“Hey we said ‘rapidly’, nobody said anything about it still working when we’re done”
Fast, cheap, good. They’re going for 1 out of 3.
Hahaha, good point. On the other hand, “cheap” depends on the perspective. From Musk’s it’s an incredibly cheap way to get a big payoff…huge ROI!
Musk remains true to his Disney villain character and I stand by my previous wish for his fate to be:
…eaten by hyenas. Preferably hyenas he had recently betrayed to save his own skin.
At the rate were going were going to get the bad ending which is:
…Chinese bombers over Washington blotting out the sun.
Well, there goes disability for me, my full time care twin, and my siezure prone full time care sister…
This schedule is ludicrous even if they cut all the Agile meetings in half and skip Sprint Grooming altogether.
I would bet that there will be an “accidental” bug in the code that deletes every single Social Security account.
Only those that criticize the government, somehow. “Oops, because of some complicated algorithm, it only affected people who posted the word ‘orange’ on social media recently.”
“Woops! Well, just reapply via this new DOGE chatbot! It rejects applications with a 100% success rate!”
Let’s hope he makes a backup first
We’ll just put it all in one giant table. Think of the space savings!
Document databases are the future /s
