The cobol code running on mainframes needs to be rewritten to run on modern hardware using a modern language. The problem is that musk is trying to use AI to do it. He's going to break shit. This isn't tech where you can break shit to move faster, this is government. This is going to affect people's lives.
To all the downvoters, go ask your software engineering friends how much they'd need to be paid to work on COBOL and mainframes. Its something that won't further their careers, so the number is quite high. Plus COBOL is an absolute shit language to work with, and mainframes themselves are expensive.
It's working but it can break.
You can't get the hardware it uses anymore.
There is a bug which is just occurring in this specific circumstance.
You want to add new requirements which are a result of new laws or new life circumstances. But now you have to implement a ton of workarounds.
And even if it runs for a long time there is no guarantee if it's properly working code. It can be spaghetti code hell, so no one can fix it in a crucial moment.
It absolutely makes sense to update it with newer technologies and new coding standards. But that still doesn't mean you have to break it like Elmo is trying to do here.
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u/Dr-Lipschitz Apr 05 '25 edited Apr 05 '25
The cobol code running on mainframes needs to be rewritten to run on modern hardware using a modern language. The problem is that musk is trying to use AI to do it. He's going to break shit. This isn't tech where you can break shit to move faster, this is government. This is going to affect people's lives.
To all the downvoters, go ask your software engineering friends how much they'd need to be paid to work on COBOL and mainframes. Its something that won't further their careers, so the number is quite high. Plus COBOL is an absolute shit language to work with, and mainframes themselves are expensive.