Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML | Hacker News

Hacker News debated whether software requirements should be kept as YAML-backed specs as AI-generated code becomes more common.

Supporters argued that durable specs help both humans and AI agents preserve intent, reduce ambiguity, and recover rationale later.

The discussion highlighted specs as a machine-readable source of truth that can stay aligned as code, frameworks, and implementations change.

Examples like Cucumber, Jira, Flutter, Claude, and LLM workflows framed the broader shift toward formalizing software intent outside code.