But if you have a business, and don't have continuity and recovery plans for software disasters, that's like not having fire insurance on your facility.
Fire insurance (and backups/disaster recovery plans) doesn't mean there won't be disruption, but it makes the disaster survivable, whereas without it your business is probably ended.
And losing a database or a major part of one is as simple as one adminstrator accidentally running "drop database" or "delete from customers" or "rm -rf" in the wrong environment. It happens, I've helped recover from it, and it doesn't take an AI running amok to do it.
That's the gist of your argument. They're not a "serious business", therefore it's their fault. Let's not mince words.
> It happens, I've helped recover from it, and it doesn't take an AI running amok to do it.
Again, losing a database is not the issue. I don't know why you fixated on that. The issue is that most modern software is buggy and risky to use in ways that a typical business is not well equipped to handle. "AI" can only make matters worse, with users having a false sense of confidence in its output. Thinking otherwise is delusional to the point of being dangerous.
But if you have a business, and don't have continuity and recovery plans for software disasters, that's like not having fire insurance on your facility.
Fire insurance (and backups/disaster recovery plans) doesn't mean there won't be disruption, but it makes the disaster survivable, whereas without it your business is probably ended.
And losing a database or a major part of one is as simple as one adminstrator accidentally running "drop database" or "delete from customers" or "rm -rf" in the wrong environment. It happens, I've helped recover from it, and it doesn't take an AI running amok to do it.