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  >The backend ALWAYS validates.
Exactly. Sometimes in a system so big compartmentalization is required yet meta-communication is inhibited, that comfort-ability can lead to false asserts / assumptions.

"We always validate - no need for _me_ to do it" type bystander effect / diffusion of responsibility.



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