This reminds me of something a volunteer at our campus observatory told me once while I was in college. I don't recall what we were discussing, but their commen

This reminds me of something a volunteer at our campus observatory told me once while I was in college. I don't recall what we were discussing, but their comment stands out to me today: "Don't engineer things to work. Engineer things not to fail." Often at work I see code implementations that "work" in that they usually work but can fail. I'm not a great engineer by any means (I'm actually an economist that stumbled into code), but I believe that one of the reasons I've been able to gain a good reputation at work is specifically because I design with that principle in mind.