From what we know, this to me sounds like a story about technical debt. "Sure, it's held together with rubber bands and is a mess, but it would cost hundreds o

From what we know, this to me sounds like a story about technical debt. "Sure, it's held together with rubber bands and is a mess, but it would cost hundreds of millions to fix, and it's working, isn't it? So the programmers complain a bit, that's their job." Which works until conditions change in some way and it catastrophically does not. I think a lot of our society is now run on unreliable fragile software. I expect to see a lot more of this. "Automation" is especially cost-savings when you don't min it being a fragile unreliable time-bomb.