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by rohansood15 65 days ago
You're assuming errors cannot be retried/recovered. They can.
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You're assuming errors are a clear failure that can be identified and retried, rather than a silent drift from user intent that simply feeds bad but well-formed results into the next step. They're not. Well, of course sometimes they are, but the much more insidious failure mode is doing the wrong thing in the right way.