When to give up, and how?

Björn Fahller’s NDC TechTown 2025 talk explores what to do when your program ends up in a contradictory state—usually thanks to a bug. Should you keep plowing ahead doing the wrong thing, let it crash, or try to rescue it if there’s still hope?

He walks through real-world scenarios and options, weighing trade-offs between failing fast, graceful recovery, or just cutting your losses—so you can decide when to throw in the towel and how to do it without turning errors into chaos.

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