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by geocrasher 1066 days ago
This reminds me of end users who unknowingly exploit a bug in a piece of software and integrate it into their normal workflow. The result is that when the bug is fixed, their workflow is interrupted, causing complaints.
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More formally:

> 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.

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