A rewrite of a massive COBOL app critical to the operation of social security with tons of domain specific knowledge in it by people who know nearly nothing about the domain space or the tech.
#Elon: Yeah with #AI we can do this in a few months.
No expertise in #sofwareengineering neeeded to know this absolutely won’t work.
More likely he is gonna “whoops my bad” project management this system to end social security.
Oh right I’ll stop now as I forgot—tech is non-political & neutral 🫠
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