I agree! We've been building a CLI that uses an SDK [1] against our new API and so far it's been tremendously helpful in identifying bugs and other problems --

I agree! We've been building a CLI that uses an SDK [1] against our new API and so far it's been tremendously helpful in identifying bugs and other problems -- if we hadn't gone through that exercise then we would have inadvertently shipped some of those issues out to our users. I think SDKs are great. The intent of the article was to document why I will sometimes opt out of using them. [1] https://github.com/heroku/hk https://github.com/heroku/hk