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Fallbacks Are Evil

I keep running into this line in code review, over and over: const name = user . name || "Unknown name" ; It looks harmless, even considerate — we're not letting the app crash. In reality there's a bug hiding here, and it's already in production, just not caught yet. user.name in your data model is…

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  1. 2026-11-10 13:45 · DEV Community — AI
    Fallbacks Are Evil

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