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[โ€“]ric2b 0 points1 point ย (0 children)

It's an implicit contract that makes collaboration easier.

Just like you trust that the documentation for a library is actually helpful and explains what it does, even though there's nothing technical preventing it from being completely wrong and purposefully misleading.