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Why would you waste time doing that when you don't even know there's a problem?


Why does anyone heed a warning? In order to catch an issue before they get an error.


But the point is that warnings are often not good predictors of problems. There's a good argument that "warning" on anything at all is an anti-pattern, because you're just attracting valuable attention towards something that may or may not be anything to worry about.

Where warnings are useful are when "something is actually now going wrong" - they provide a valuable context that can help an engineer figure out what the issue might be, which is exactly how it worked in this case.




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