> We will improve our static analysis and testing practices to correctly handle errors and if need be fail open.

> Without the appropriate error handling, the null pointer caused the binary to crash.

Even worse if this was AI generated C or C++ code, wasn't this not tested before deployment?

This is why you write tests before the acutal code and why vibe-coding is a scam as well. This would also never have happened if it was in Rust.

I expect far better than this from Google and we are still dealing with null pointer crashes to this day.