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

For developers weary of blind trust in AI outputs, this manifesto champions YAML-based specs as the cure to what the author terms 'AI psychosis.' With 34 points and 20 comments at rank 1, it's a niche but pointed critique that outperforms the average rank-1 story in commentary-to-points ratio. The author argues that writing structured specifications reduces hallucination risks by 80% compared to prompting alone, grounding AI reasoning in explicit, parseable rules. This approach is cheaper than the typical rival method of relying on black-box models, as it cuts debugging time by half. A concrete example demonstrates a 10-line YAML file catching a scheduling error that a GPT-4 suggestion missed entirely.