100% true. It’s a sign of evolving understanding of software engineering — in 2005, it was still common to believe that the best way to prevent errors was to he

100% true. It’s a sign of evolving understanding of software engineering — in 2005, it was still common to believe that the best way to prevent errors was to help fallible human beings learn to detect them better. Now, well, it’s still common but we’re overall getting smarter about letting computers protect us from ourselves. (And the kind of technique described here still matters because you should understand why the guardrails are where they are.)