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There are so many of us doing this, haha. If you work at a big enough company or one with poorly documented APIs, it's just faster to reverse engineer the exist

• TeMPOraL 2y ago
  Just make sure you don't end up accidentally making one of those APIs semi-official. I've seen a case where one team developed a temporary hack to automate some process in their product, then allowed another team making a sibling product to use it to test a possible feature; soon after, the possible feature became an actual one, everyone seemingly forgot the API was a throwaway test. Over the years, as both products evolved, that feature got pretty flaky, and in one of many cross-team attempts at fixing it, someone from the original time finally pointed out that the whole thing is still relying on a temporary hack in the original product that was never intended to be productized...