Tiebreaker 1: Prefer the loud failure ===================================== Spec: descriptive guidance, not a checkable rule. It carries no forbidden and instead pair, and no `jig check` detector applies to it directly. Section: Principles Group: Tiebreakers **Between silent failure and visible failure, choose visible.** A form that discards a submission and shows success is worse than one that errors. A page serving stale data without saying so is worse than a slow one. Silent failure is the most expensive class of defect, because the cost is paid by someone who never finds out.