Nathan Tankus
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 17 Jul
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There's what you know encoding is called the business logic.
So not just the the logic of like the abstractly the language of the program, but the business logic that is involved.
The Treasury has, you know, belatedly
Gone into various payment modernization projects over the last 20 years.
If you know, as we'll get to, there's a sinking feeling in my stomach about maybe it shouldn't have.
But it is quite a complex system that requires a quite a specialized group of essentially aging programmers to manage this system and make
Make sure that it is functioning properly and that, you know, all payments go out from the Treasury on time and that they never miss a payment and it's never delayed.
Well, I mean that is kind of what I was getting at.
funny, I started playing with Deep Seek before this crisis really got I was having fun.
You
I you know I loved you know getting some R code and building an economic model, proving my mat skills and understanding the mathematical properties of models.
It was great for that.
It has a ton of data that it is based on that it can do that.
And each system, I mean, this is true about generally any sort of business system that is developed for over
a long time, but it's especially true for COBOL system and especially true for older systems.
And no system is older than the Treasury, even with the modernizations.
You know, the modern is modernizing these systems mean changing the physical architecture that they run on and maybe updating the language so that it can also be used on, say, a computer and not just a mainframe.
And there's some unification of business logic that is all, but it's not getting rid of COBOL.
And actually getting rid of COBOL would be a bet.
There's an updated version of COBOL, RM COBOL, that they use.
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