Excellent post. People always defend agentic/LLM-driven development by saying, "Well it's good enough", or "It works most of the time."
That may be tolerable for some user-facing app. But what if we start normalizing failures in the libraries, the infrastructure, and the compilers? Everything descends into a mess of unreliability, and that slows EVERYTHING and EVERYONE down.
Banking/Finance is the one industry I've seen push back against this type of thinking. Transactions must be handled in a perfect and repeatable way, or the system is unusable as far as the company is concerned.
There's definitely still AI/LLM integration happening, but is kept out of specific areas of the business.
I've been seeing the very opposite. Fintech companies treating design of financial systems with the casualness of a frontend aesthetic change. And tons of business people integrating their vibecoded POCs with financially sensitive data sources.
Would Fintech include orgs like Yotta Bank, Robinhood, Revolut that tried to do finance things with a tech attitude, whereas banking/finance is your more traditional HSBC, Deutsche Bank, etc?
Yeah, Fintech is specifically the kind of startup and post-startup space. Companies that predate the DotCom Bust and GFC would be a decent delineator for banking/finance companies that aren't fintech.
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That may be tolerable for some user-facing app. But what if we start normalizing failures in the libraries, the infrastructure, and the compilers? Everything descends into a mess of unreliability, and that slows EVERYTHING and EVERYONE down.
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There's definitely still AI/LLM integration happening, but is kept out of specific areas of the business.
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