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by ignoramous 1254 days ago
> If people could really see the software, viscerally, they would approve budgets to fix it.

Tools for this exist; ex: https://semgrep.dev/docs/writing-rules/data-flow/data-flow-o...

I suspect the information overload for any substantially large code base would be such that, non-engineers would look right past the complexity after the enthusiasm wears off.