cobol

No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting #SocialSecurity Benefits
#Musk claims to have found rampant #fraud in the Social Security Administration. There's a much simpler explanation.
#COBOL does not have a date type, implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, when a birth date is missing or incomplete, meaning all of those entries in 2025 would show an age of 150.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-social-security-150-year-old-benefits/
https://archive.ph/uL7g8

Na tentativa de fazer com que as aulas de programação fugissem da mesmice, fiz uma proposta pra turma um tanto... peculiar. E com adolescente, esse tipo de coisa, é sempre uma aposta arriscada, né - ou eles topam ou eles acabam com sua autoestima e sua dignidade.
Enfim, eles piraram e temos agora, nescendo, a Ilha-continente de Lovelace:

#html #java #cobol #c #pyton #programmig #edtech

I posted about the Claude Code leak on LinkedIn and almost immediately someone attacked me about my criticism. They tried the "take a look at COBOL and get back to me" angle.

Buddy. I've written COBOL. I spent several years working almost daily with a 3-million-line monstrosity of a COBOL program. I was working on another app that interfaced with it, but in that work I occasionally had to read the code and in a few cases modify it. Granted I haven't spent as much time looking at the leaked Claude Code source code (and won't lol), but nevertheless I confidently declare that Claude Code is worse. "Spaghetti code" doesn't come close to describing this thing.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #ClaudeCode #ClaudeCodeLeak #Anthropic #Claude #tech #dev #SoftwareEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment #software #COBOL #LinkedIn