Surprisingly, 80's and 90's developers were quite skilled low-level developers who knew very well all the ways things could go wrong. The difference was the sta

Surprisingly, 80's and 90's developers were quite skilled low-level developers who knew very well all the ways things could go wrong. The difference was the stakes were not high then. The blast radius was maybe a hundred thousand people and the worst was they lost their own files. Now some AI-controlled process or apparatus could ruin everyone's credit and maybe even kill you and all your neighbors.