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by fcantournet 309 days ago
> If it saves my ass even just once, it will probably be worth it overall.

That's a common fallacy of safety by the way :)

It could very well "save your ass" just once (whatever that means) while costing you more in time, opportunity, effort, or even false sense of safety, to generate more harm than it will ultimately save you.

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Sure, but so far the cost is very minimal. Like 1 minute per PR on average. A crash in production and the subsequent falloffs is probably a good week of work and quite a bit of stress. That gives me quite a few PRs.

And it's not even safety critical code.