Andrew Antes

• Andrew Antes 20 Jul 2023 15:32 UTC

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  on: Ac­ci­den­tally Load Bearing

  Hyrum’s Law
  
  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.
  
  I suppose “observable behaviors” includes “emergent” observable behaviors.