An escape route from YAML hell (News)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Adolfo Ochagavía believes we’re approaching the problem of configuration from a flawed starting point, Annie Mueller hits us with a wakeup call about how she reads beginner tutorials, Brian Kihoon Lee spends some time meditating on taste, Namanyay thinks vibe coding is coders braindead, and Can Elma speculates on why AI helps senior engineers more than juniors.

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1. What up, human nerds? (00:00:00)

https://neal.fun/not-a-robot/?utm_source=changelog-news

2. An escape route from YAML hell (00:00:34)

https://ochagavia.nl/blog/configuration-files-are-user-interfaces/

3. How a non-dev reads beginner tutorials (00:01:23)

https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner?utm_source=changelog-news

4. Taste is humanity's last edge over AI (00:02:17)

https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/taste/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: CodeRabbit (00:02:50)

https://www.coderabbit.ai/blog/coderabbits-mcp-server-integration-code-reviews-that-see-the-whole-picture?utm_source=changelog-news

6. Vibe coding is creating braindead coders (00:04:00)

https://nmn.gl/blog/vibe-coding-gambling?utm_source=changelog-news

7. Why does AI mostly make seniors stronger? (00:05:02)

https://elma.dev/notes/ai-makes-seniors-stronger/?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:06:03)

https://changelog.news