Original link: DOGE Plans to Rewrite Entire Social Security Codebase in Just ‘a Few Months’: Report / Gizmodo.
SSA systems supposedly consist of XX million lines of Cobol code running on mainframe.
I can certainly understand a desire to get off that platform. If I were SSA CIO then I would start planning for a migration ASAP.
But DOGE wants to do the migration in a few month using AI to convert the Cobol code.
That is insane. It is impossible to convert that big systems that quickly - AI or no AI. SSA has previously created a 5 year plan for the migrartion and that timeframe sounds more realistic.