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by echelon 246 days ago
Database integrity constraints fall into the same category.

This entire class of automation is awful and defeats the robustness of the tool itself.

All of these things have terribly unpredictable consequences and tend to fail at the worst moments, such as during a SEV.

You can encode the same rules and discipline in other ways that do not impact the health of the system, the quality of the data, or the ability of engineers to do work.