Things have changed so much, from the app side laying out data, file system/storage side, and hardware speeds, that people are much more lazy with applications

Things have changed so much, from the app side laying out data, file system/storage side, and hardware speeds, that people are much more lazy with applications due to the environmental improvements. I use to make lists first, then process the lists, I still do this sometimes since its faster. If you have to run a query every time, your probably doing it wrong, but for small stuff, everything is so far, I can chain gnu apps and be done. I'm not a programmer, I'm a sysadmin so mostly deal with the fixing things like auditing or fixing data on a file system. (or maybe db)