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by pengstrom 1748 days ago
We can't forget that "error handling" is a civilization-level hard problem. Do you set up support structures to catch them when shit hits the fan, or do do you preventatively and excruciatingly suppress them?

It's as much a theoretical problem of what errors are as a practical problem in how to represent these intricate models ergonomically, and what will be sacrificed. In some sense it's an almost moral question!

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And then throw PII concerns into the fray. How do you report meaningful information to your ops team but still not expose PII in your logs. There's ways of course but its not trivial.