Considering the average age of the Japanese population I wouldn’t be shocked to find out a somewhat big percentage still use last century methods. Hell, I remember somewhere mentioned the last system with floppies was finally put to rest on the government level (do not recall exactly the story but I think was in Japan)

You are not incorrect about this. However, every time I see an abomination with macros and external calls made in excel I want to shoot the head department for such heresy (yes, usually they are between departments and they call this shit “apps”. Just fucking kill me)

I do resonate a lot with this. Also, another detail: with the speed of ai churning mostly not correct by itself results most of the time gives 2 big things:

• a much bigger effort of reviewing spaghetti code and hope it makes sense and nothing bad comes out of it (keep in mind generated code can be heavily verbose and without need to do so)
• without the thinking hard part of the code, making a cohesive architecture is a lot harder.

Problem is, when the solution is “press button and hope the slot machine gives the good spaghetti back to you” is the answer, you’re fucked.

… And what about put all of this shit behind a secure front end before connecting to anything?

Being old and lazy […] Love it so fat.

Pun intended?