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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.




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