[furyofantares]

A couple thoughts.

One is that often I do want error handling, but also often I either know the error just won't happen or if it does, something is very wrong and we should just crash fast to make it easy to fix the bug.

But I am not really sure I would expect someone to know the difference in all cases just looking at some code. This is often an about holistically knowing how the app works.

A second thought - remember the experiment where an LLM was fine tuned on bad code (exploitable security problems for example) and the LLM became broadly misaligned on all sorts of unrelated (non-coding) tasks/contexts? It's as if "good or bad" alignment is encoded as a pretty general concept.

Error-handling is good aligned, which I think is why, even with lots of instructions to fail fast, it's still hard to get the LLM to allow crashing by avoiding error checking. It's gonna be even harder if you do want it to do some error checking, and the code it's looking at has some error checking