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Comment by davelee

3 days ago

I know this as Hyrum's Law (which also comes from a Googler):

"With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."

https://www.hyrumslaw.com/

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