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Honestly if this was possible there are more egregious issues on their part than using AI.
If your backups are stored alongside your production data THEY ARE NOT BACKUPS
The truth is many firms out there don't have the slightest notion of how to do software engineering properly.
It's years of wanting IT on a shoestring budget and a "just get it done" dictat.
Not necessarily. I had a student intern at a shop where everybody just directly edited prod and there was no version control system.
At my first job, the software was configured by directly manipulating the SQL database, using UPDATE statements that were created by Excel macros.
The Testing database doubled as the only backup.
They didn't have Remote Desktop licenses for the server, so only 2 people could work on it simultaneously using admin accounts.
Everyone down to first level support and the secretary had domain admin rights.
Oh my god, that's glorious. I have some pretty sick stories from what my students have seen, but yours is going to be awfully hard to beat.
AI was the hammer that knocked the nail into the coffin