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hbnyesterday at 4:04 PM1 replyview on HN

I never figured out how the hell to write YAML and I definitely won't now that I trust the AI to do a better job than me. It's so unintuitive.

Every time I've tried in the past, something as simple as making a value a list had some nonsense expectations. I can't wrap my head around how that spec got any traction and wasn't laughed off the face of the earth the first time it was looked at by someone who didn't create it.


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frollogastontoday at 5:16 AM

I don't get it either. There was a point where I had to write YAML, but it wasn't intuitive to begin with, and months in I was still accidentally setting the wrong number of indents or some nonsense.