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Comment by jsnell

1 day ago

> it could have just as likely been an assert() in another language

Asserts are much easier to forbid by policy.

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esprehn  1 day ago

That's fair, though `if (isInvalidPolicy) reject();` causes the same outage. So the eng process policy change seems to be failing open and slow rollouts to catch that case too.

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