Agent writing YAML vs. Code

Will AI Agents be the Death of YAML?

Stop Making Agents Write YAML At @Scale: Systems and Reliability this year, Pulumi’s Joe Duffy put a name to a problem a lot of us have been quietly routing around for years. He called it the “agentic infrastructure gap.” The setup is familiar. Andrej Karpathy has compared getting an app into production to assembling IKEA furniture: cloud consoles, API keys, configuration copied from somewhere, and a fair amount of duct tape holding it together. The part that matters is that almost none of that lives anywhere an LLM can actually reason about. ...

June 29, 2026 · 3 min · Suraj Deshmukh