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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    1. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc Jan 24
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      The Stripe API now makes suggestions in response to misspellings!pic.twitter.com/152wU4LPqY

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    2. ᴅᴀᴠɪᴅ ᴘᴇʀᴇʟʟ  ✌‏ @david_perell Jan 24
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      Asking this as a curious outsider who knows very little about software. Why is this a recent innovation? Auto-correct seems like an obvious problem the software community should have solved years ago. Perhaps there's a lot of technical complexity here. What am I missing?

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    3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 25
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      A true but perhaps unhelpful answer: it doesn’t exist in most APIs because no one implemented it. A perhaps more useful answer: broadly speaking, most APIs are bespoke software systems. This layer is built from ground up, rather than being built on a common, robust foundation.

      2 replies 4 retweets 39 likes
    4. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 25
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      Replying to @patio11 @david_perell @patrickc

      In contrast, when you’re using an operating system or a programming language, you get to benefit from a lot of work done over years or decades by others. (Whether they have great ergonomics even given that advantage is... a very mixed bag.)

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    5. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 25
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      Replying to @patio11 @david_perell @patrickc

      Why don’t engineering teams in industry prioritize implementing e.g. better error messages? A combination of undervaluation of the end-user developer experience, competing priorities which product teams thought were more important, and belief that bugs are user’s responsibility.

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    6. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 25
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      Replying to @patio11 @david_perell @patrickc

      (At risk of stating the obvious, every team/colony/professional has a different level of agreement with these, but let’s say that these are the defaults you get and anything on top of that is a result of you deciding to make it happen.)

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      Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 Jan 25
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      Replying to @patio11 @david_perell @patrickc

      *company (This which might be one interesting example of a reason why APIs don’t simply assume they know what an engineer meant when typing something a short distance away from a valid parameter name.)

      1:05 AM - 25 Jan 2020
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