Its a matter of priorities. Its cheap and fast and there is a chance that it will be OK. Even just OK until I move on. People often make risky choices for those reasons. Not just with IT systems - the crash of 2008 was largely the result of people betting (usually correctly) that the wheels would not fall off until after they had collected a few years of bonuses.
OK, if it's a matter of priorities, let's just ignore all hard learned lessons in software engineering, and vibe-code our way through life, crossing fingers and hoping for the best.
Typing systems? Who needs them, the LLM knows better. Different prod, dev, and staging environments? To hell with them, the LLM knows better. Testing? Nope, the LLM told me everything's sweet.
(I know you're not saying this, I'm just venting my frustration. It's like the software engineering world finally and conclusively decided engineering wasn't necessary at all).
I do not know who is doing the math, but deleting production data does not sound very cheap to me...
No, but the decision is taken on the basis that it probably will not happen, and if it does there is a good chance that the person taking the decision will not be the one to bear the consequences.
That is why I chose to compare it to the 2008 crash. The people who took the decisions to take the risks that lead to it came out of it OK.