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> 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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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.

VScode is free, so not really money on the line. Easy decision. Things get complicated when money gets involved.

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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.

VScode is free, so not really money on the line. Easy decision. Things get complicated when money gets involved.

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