Fallbacks are worse than we think they are

🫧 Open on Bubbles Here is a post I made a while ago about fallbacks. I stand by it, but models are a lot better now at not inserting bad fallbacks. I don't know whether that's a product of my guidance, the models' improvement, or both. Now I'd like to make explicit why I like fallbacks a lot less than most of my peers. Throwing an error is often better than falling back (to a default, to a different service, or whatever). If fallbacks are treated as successes, underlying errors become hard to detect. If you