Wherever except: pass wraps the code, a failure raises nothing and logs nothing, leaving no trail to follow.
These days I only let decorative content degrade silently: mood, hardware stats, recommendation slots — things the user barely notices when they’re missing.
Identity, time, and context assembly are off limits. When they fail silently the model raises nothing; it just behaves as if it doesn’t know, say, what time the user went to bed last night. Tracing that back to one except line takes a long detour.
Written byShihao Qi
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