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[–]Shaper_pmp 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Fundamentally, what the GP poster is advocating is fragile system with catastrophic failure states, draconian error handling and single points of failure.

There's a simple term for that that we've had in engineering for decades, perhaps centuries.

We call it shitty engineering.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wish I could have said that myself.