DOGE To Rewrite SSA Codebase In 'Months'

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By BeauHDMar 28, 2025, 7:10 pm221 ptsTop
Longtime Slashdot reader frank_adrian314159 writes: According to an article in Wired, Elon Musk has appointed a team of technologists from DOGE to "rewrite the code that runs the SSA in months." This codebase has over 60 million lines of COBOL and handles record keeping for all American workers and payments for…

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