Adding that this just gets worse when databases are peppered with direct access by vibe-coded applications that don’t look at production data or gather these insights before deciding “yeah this sounds like the format of text that should go in the column with this name, and that’s the column I should use.”
And now there’s an example in the codebase of what not to do, and other AI sessions will see it, and follow that pattern blindly, and… well, we all know where this goes.