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by x87678r 2095 days ago
> just "the way it has always been done" in finance

Twenty years ago for many systems devs could do whatever they wanted in production. There were insider trading scandals and combined with SOX, regulators cracked down on it so now devs have lost at least write access. If you have an old system that relied on knowledgeable devs to fix stuff its a terrible situation where people just quit and no one can support it.