I agree.

But I feel like it's a minority that really know how the software they're writing really works. And it's 10x worse for older legacy software.

Mostly because the people doing it don't care. Not judging, just reporting I guess. I know because I used to work in quite a few companies where the "money maker" app was on maintenance for years and nobody was able to answer questions or didn't even know most corners of it still existed.

This desperation mindset also often correlates with people writing code without care for the next maintainer.

And the scary part is that this also correlates with advocacy for going all-AI.

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