[softveda]

So code that was untested (the code path that failed was never exercised), perhaps there is no test environment, and not even peer reviewed ( it did not have appropriate error handling nor was it feature flag protected.) was pushed to production, what a surprise !!

[sebazzz]

Continuous Integration/Continuous Disaster

[bananapub]

There absolutely is a test environment, it was absolutely reviewed and Google has absolutely spent Moon-landing money on testing and in particular static analysis.

[fidotron]

Moon landing money on static analysis that failed to identify the existence of a completely untested code path? Or even to shake this out with random data generation?

This is a dumbfounding level of mistake for an organization such as Google.

[polotics]

ok so what gives then?

[JackSlateur]

No amount of "whatever" can prevent bugs to reach production

[miyuru]

I would not be surprised if the code was AI generated.

[yen223]

I like the faith you have that people weren't making null-pointer mistakes before LLMs.