A Windows batch script I wrote in February 2025 hid a folder behind a Control Panel CLSID and called itself secure. It hid nothing that mattered, and one of its bugs stayed invisible for seventeen months.
A code review of a low-code automation that worked perfectly and could not be maintained. Finding the problems was the easy part. Deciding which one to raise first was the job.
Developers judge low-code platforms by their drag-and-drop layer and conclude there is no programming in them. The programming is in the expression language, one level down.
