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The Zen Lady

DOGE plans to convert social security COBOL to Java in just months is guaranteed to break it

My latest letter to my congressmen today. Please feel free to use it to send to your senators and representatives

(full text in comments since it exceeds alt text)

Reports that DOGE is going to convert Social Security database from COBOL to Java in a few months is a nightmare waiting to happen. COBOL is an archaic computer language with interesting quirks and to convert to Java or another modern computer language should take years in order to do it correctly without breaking the system. And the fact that DOGE plans to use AI to do this is even more frightening. You need to talk with a panel of knowledgeable COBOL experts (not these fresh out of high school boys in DOGE) about what it would take to convert a COBOL database to a different language. COBOL is still being used in many businesses and other government databases simply because the cost and time to convert to a modern computer language is a monumental task – and from what I have read by experts, AI does not have the ability to convert COBOL except for the simplest of codes. If DOGE is allowed to do this, it WILL break the system and millions of social security recipients will not receive their checks (including me). And knowing how these DOGE boys have taken a sledgehammer to other federal agencies, it is doubtful that they will leave a copy of the original COBOL program to restore the system to its original operating status. Musk has not taken an oath of office and I don’t trust him to not abscond with funds from Social Security and the Treasury via backdoors installed by his DOGE boys. There has been absolutely no oversight on what DOGE has been doing to the various agencies
Mar 29, 2025, 09:52 PM·Public
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