Faye on Nostr: “Elon has been given access to USAID, He’s discovered it’s written in COBOL! ...
“Elon has been given access to USAID, He’s discovered it’s written in COBOL! Only like two hundred people in the world know that! What else could he discover?!”
The amount of just… fucking stupid in this single sentence is enough to write an essay on.
- nearly every old monster was written in COBOL
- every old monster has myriad things wrong with it. Every massive enterprise code base is awful. It’s an immutable rule of software.
- discovering things wrong with this would not be news to any informed person either, except what you’re actually doing is implying that this will be your “Ahah!” Or “gotcha!” Moment when God king Musk proves for once that you are valid in your anti intellectualism (particularly rage inducing this one)
- you are completely burying the lede on the MASSIVE issues of actual note here, such as there’s a REASON you don’t loose a team of “very smart” kids who are just out of internship on these things to push directly to prod on a must-succeed system
The amount of just… fucking stupid in this single sentence is enough to write an essay on.
- nearly every old monster was written in COBOL
- every old monster has myriad things wrong with it. Every massive enterprise code base is awful. It’s an immutable rule of software.
- discovering things wrong with this would not be news to any informed person either, except what you’re actually doing is implying that this will be your “Ahah!” Or “gotcha!” Moment when God king Musk proves for once that you are valid in your anti intellectualism (particularly rage inducing this one)
- you are completely burying the lede on the MASSIVE issues of actual note here, such as there’s a REASON you don’t loose a team of “very smart” kids who are just out of internship on these things to push directly to prod on a must-succeed system