Unfortunately it will all probably sort of work, But best not to dwell too much on how the sausage is made, it is pretty unpleasant. There will be some interesting job titles in the future however.

I just read Vernor Vinge's "A deepness in the sky" And the way he modeled their compute systems felt depressingly believable, they have thousand of years of libraries floating around, sort of loosely tacked together. and specialist programmer-archaeologists are the ones who who dig deep and try to understand the system.