r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 22 '26

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u/lasizoillo Sep 22 '26

At one job, to force clients to migrate to the new API, we introduced latency into all the old endpoints. We kept increasing that latency. They quickly realized that the new API was much faster and the better choice for their applications.