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		Spivak on Oct 2, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Trello co-founder Michael Pryor on pandering to po... > Having an API really does create an enormous amount of work for you. I'm sure for some codebases this is true but are y'all not just giving customers (basically) the same endpoints you give yourselves/your frontend team to build your 1st party UI?

oblio on Oct 2, 2020 | [–]

Great. And now you have to refactor the API. Your life is suddenly 1000x more complicated.

neutronicus on Oct 3, 2020 | [–]

In our case it's a 30 year old CAD application written in C++, so no

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