alt Hacker NewsBanking/Finance is the one industry I've seen push back against this type of thinking. Transactions must be handled in a perfect and repeatable way, or the system is unusable as far as the company is concerned.
There's definitely still AI/LLM integration happening, but is kept out of specific areas of the business.
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I think the failures matter in non-sensitive environments as well albeit with a different threshold.
If you randomly screw up customer orders (think of DoorDash or an online shop or Airbnb). They lose trust in you and you lose your business to the competition. Going happy go lucky and being irresponsible in the business can bankrupt most* businesses.
* well, of course except the criminal empires which are bailed out by our tax money.
I've been seeing the very opposite. Fintech companies treating design of financial systems with the casualness of a frontend aesthetic change. And tons of business people integrating their vibecoded POCs with financially sensitive data sources.
Same with aviation and safety. I honestly believe all programmers should, early in their careers, do a brief "tour of duty" in an industry where the stakes are high and "good enough" isn't good enough. You might not choose to make it your entire career, but at least you're exposed to the discipline, however briefly. Most software developers today have never in their lives worked on a project where defects were taken seriously and where there was process and documentation designed to reduce their occurrence.