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irjustintoday at 3:36 AM1 replyview on HN

> Sounds like you’ve maybe never actually run a service or API library at scale.

What was the saying? When your scale is big enough, even your bugs have users.


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raincoletoday at 3:39 AM

Yeah, but when you are big enough you can afford to not care individual users.

VScode once broke a very popular extension that used a private API. Microsoft (righteously) didn't bother to ask if the private API had users.

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