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		groby_b on Feb 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let It Fail Failing in predictable ways is always a problem. Even if it's a novel way of failing. Those boxes are there as last resort, not as an engineering strategy.

giaour on Feb 25, 2023 [–]

Having a last resort is an engineering strategy (and not a very popular one outside of safety critical industries).

I've seen plenty of projects that choose not to design or think about handling "unknown unknown" failure vectors because YAGNI

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