• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    15 天前

    LOLOL. 100% success, I don’t see any issues with this whatsoever. Musk’s track record on such promises certainly is airtight, and his little Hitler Youth engineering team surely has this under control.

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      Exactly, its like having a Ransomware hacker working directly for the government.

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      More like the department will be crippled for years. The replaced code will not work, corrupting data. I fully expect them to make it hard to replace the new stuff with the older systems which has tens of millions of moving parts.

      The damage will be so great that people applying for social security a generation from now will still feel aftereffects

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    tHEy wOn’T TouCh sOCiAL SecUriTy, thAT’s CraZy

    -so, so many people that I’ve talked to.

    Stop being surprised. They made a playbook. The posted it online 5 years ago. They said they’d follow it. They are following it. They will continue to follow it. This is not a surprise. You’re not allowed to be surprised.

    STOP BEING FUCKING SURPRISED BY THIS.

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      I can’t imagine there’s a huge overlap between people seeing this comment and people who said they wouldn’t touch social security. The people this needs to be yelled at aren’t getting their news online (at least not the ones I’ve interacted with).

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    That is the point. He wants it to collapse. Musk has repeatedly talked about how he thinks social security shouldn’t exist at all.

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      It makes me genuinely wonder if they’re going to actually try to reprogram it or just do nothing and say they did.

      Another real possibility is Musk ours a small team of three or four fresh college graduates on the job knowing that they’ll fail, essentially setting them up to be the fall guys if he can’t avoid repercussions.

      Either way the goal is not to benefit the people who rely on social security.

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    This is insane and stupid and tells me there’s no one involved in the process that has ever managed a software project before, which makes it doubly insane and stupid.

    Of course a fresh out of college hotshot thinks they can complete a major coding project in 3 months. That’s why no one takes their estimates seriously, not announces them to the world.

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      Don’t worry. The most important part of software development these days is not to make sure the code works and is free of errors, it is to attend the daily standups and the many other “agile” time waster meetings. If the software sends your money to another person instead like the software my company created, they can just fix it in some followup sprint 6 months later. Maybe.

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    … Ok then.

    My only income is SSDI.

    … Guess its time to set up a go fund me or my cash app tag in my profile or something…

  • KingOogaBooga@lemmy.world
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    This is not how you do software and infrastructure upgrades. If Elmo and brain cell one that was not riddled with drugs he would know this.

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    Just throw the entire code base to grok and ask for it to be written in react, nothing can go wrong.

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    The thing that kills government IT projects is Scale. Any beginner can whip up some forms in Access, but to get a thing like that to work on a national scale, most components need to be hand-crafted and -optimized.

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      A lot of stuff seems to start breaking around 5 or 6 digit numbers of users.

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        Been there, seen that. Ages ago, I got a customers database project on my desk. Trying to add an entry threw the server into a frenzy, from which he did not return. It was the 65537th entry…

        Many network applications break at 64512 (or a bunch less) concurrent users. Guess why.

        I’ve seen my fair shit pieces of programming in over 40 years at the keyboard…

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      Plus it will have all the usual edge case errors of software thrown together by some code monkey trying to make his “agile” arbitrary sprint deadline. Most places these days use a software development process that minimizes quality and maximizes bugs.

      Move fast to give billionaires gigantic tax cuts and break Social Security!

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        Oh yea. And to speed things up, they will use AI for doing parts of the software. It will have the most bugs, and nobody really has an idea what the software does. Or how.

  • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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    It’s taken my team months to stand up a vendor product, that’s been installed by at least a dozen customers in similar sized businesses, with half a dozen vendor reps on-call 24/7.

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    After many months of DOGE completely restructuring SS: “Oops, sorry! We accidentally wired all your money to Israel.”

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    Because that worked so well with Twitter. Or going to Mars. Or Tesla.

    Only this time it’s so much worse. Goddammit this is all so dark.