When I was a jr dev, getting exceptions was a synonymous of ”me messing something up”. Null exceptions were specially annoying, so the naive approach is to chec

When I was a jr dev, getting exceptions was a synonymous of ”me messing something up”. Null exceptions were specially annoying, so the naive approach is to check for nulls and avoid the code that will cause the exception. And it “works”! You don’t get exceptions and your code keeps running. It’s just when you need to fix difficult bugs while you go through logs when you understand the value of having the right exception with the right message. And you learn to love them and start caring about them.