Exception management at the heart of artificial intelligence performance

What I find interesting is to link exception handling in real or virtual process to the way we handle it in programming languages.

Exception handling is one of the main difference between a junior and senior programmer. Beginner programmers will often struggle getting their code working in real life due to their focus on the ideal code path.

It also reminds me of Erlang "Let it crash" philosophy: you cannot always handle all possible errors that can happen in real situation and it is often best to design your system to be able to cope and recover from transient unexpected errors. This is at the heart of Erlang worker and supervisor architecture design.