>I didn’t know that I was functioning as an alarm clock for her! That’s why I was careful to be quiet, and why I didn’t even think to mention to her about the n

>I didn’t know that I was functioning as an alarm clock for her! That’s why I was careful to be quiet, and why I didn’t even think to mention to her about the new videochat time. >I suspect this is failure mode is more common than we realize: there is a process inside a system, and over time the process comes to fulfill some unintended, ancillary functional role, and there are people who participate in this process that aren’t even aware of this function. Ah, Hyrum's Law showing up in an unexpected context, yet again. https://www.hyrumslaw.com/ https://www.hyrumslaw.com/ 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.