I've been telling less computer literate folks not to install random stuff since the nineties, and I can't understand how many devs are doing just that these days.

I used to work in security auditing, and it makes me feel pretty jaded to think of the gigabytes upon gigabytes of random stuff that just gets pulled in from everywhere in IDEs, package managers, build pipelines and container images.

At least back then there was still a chance to read a significant part of the code and find problems before they found you.