# Hyrum's Law

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## What Jamie wrote

> Taken to its logical extreme, this leads to the following observation, colloquially referred to as “The Law of Implicit Interfaces”: Given enough use, there is no such thing as a private implementation.

If you have enough consumers you can’t change anything. This is why eBay's website can’t be changed.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT42: Weekly Thing #42 / Feb 24, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/42/), Programming

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