It also means tens of millions of losses when the data pipeline falls over silently. My first job out of university was to work on a compliance tool after some

It also means tens of millions of losses when the data pipeline falls over silently. My first job out of university was to work on a compliance tool after someone used yahoo finance for exchange rates in a business critical spreadsheet. The losses were large enough to threaten the viability of the company. Picking pennies in front of steamrolles is a pretty good description of putting no code in production.