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[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 59 points 3 days ago

Let me guess.

A bunch of kids who have never seen COBOL before use AI to rewrite it all into a language they also can't read, do the bare minimum of checks, and then run millions of payments through it.

This from the genius bar whose hard drive "overheated" when they ran a query on 60,000 records.

[-] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 9 points 2 days ago

It does sound a bit like creating plausible deniability for some sketchy transactions later on.

[-] squishy@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago

Ugh that overheated shit pisses me off. Everyone decided they can just make up whatever they want and there will be no repercussions for flat out intentional lies. So annoying.

[-] klu9@lemmy.ca 90 points 3 days ago

"If it ain't broke, break it."

Motto of the Department Of Ultra Cool High Efficiency.

[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

I see what you did there with the acronym. Lol

[-] fucktrump@lemm.ee 100 points 3 days ago

These dumb fucks are going to have blood on their hands. I hope they all catch a bullet

[-] rustyfish@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

Soon or later they will. I just hope it is more soon than later.

[-] devfuuu@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

I remember some years ago outcry about platforms offering hitman services for bitcoins...

[-] LadyMeow 12 points 3 days ago

They did pardon the founder of a service like that recently…..

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago

I never wish death on anybody. But I wouldn’t be in a hurry to capture the assailant

[-] teft@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sic semper tyrannis

[-] heavy@sh.itjust.works 56 points 3 days ago

This is absurd, they have no business doing this.

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

Break it, privatize it, squeeze for every penny. That's their business.

[-] SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml 35 points 3 days ago

He's going about it all wrong. Make the new system run parallel to the old system, THEN take the old system down. This is being done wrong on purpose.

[-] andallthat@lemmy.world 44 points 3 days ago

"Hey we said 'rapidly', nobody said anything about it still working when we're done"

[-] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

Fast, cheap, good. They're going for 1 out of 3.

[-] andallthat@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

Hahaha, good point. On the other hand, "cheap" depends on the perspective. From Musk's it's an incredibly cheap way to get a big payoff....huge ROI!

[-] uriel238 12 points 2 days ago

Musk remains true to his Disney villain character and I stand by my previous wish for his fate to be:

...eaten by hyenas. Preferably hyenas he had recently betrayed to save his own skin.

At the rate were going were going to get the bad ending which is:

...Chinese bombers over Washington blotting out the sun.

[-] Pirata@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For my Americans across the pond, I ask earnestly:

What could Russia do today that would cement themselves as an unparalleled oligarchy where just a few people control everything with no regard for anybody else in their country, that the US isn't already doing?

[-] singletona@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

Well, there goes disability for me, my full time care twin, and my siezure prone full time care sister...

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 3 days ago

Hopefully, when it’s all broken and nobody’s getting their social security payments, maybe some of them will wake up.

[-] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

They'll turn off benefits to people with opinions

[-] cmlael67@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I would bet that there will be an "accidental" bug in the code that deletes every single Social Security account.

[-] balder1991@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Only those that criticize the government, somehow. “Oops, because of some complicated algorithm, it only affected people who posted the word ‘orange’ on social media recently.”

[-] jamie_oliver@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

"Woops! Well, just reapply via this new DOGE chatbot! It rejects applications with a 100% success rate!"

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