“Most software that requires hiring and paying software engineers has low risk tolerance”

Is this true? I’ve worked in various software companies for over 20 years now and I’ve never had to worry about risk in particular, and the codebases were all somewhat bad in areas and buggy (as tends to happen when a codebase gets large and old).

The past 6 months LLMs have crossed into barely needing to check the output territory for what I work on, and generally write very similar code to what I was going to write. It needs some common sense to use it correctly of course, like going feature by feature and keeping the commits fairly small, but my job is easily 10x less work/time for the same results.

I’d be genuinely surprised if even 1% of software requires aviation levels of risk tolerance and testing, but maybe I’m mistaken and most people are working on much more mission critical things than I am?