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A GUI hides complex code behind menus and drag handles you operate by hand. AI hides the same complexity behind a conversation. Recreating a hand-built InDesign leaflet as a YAML-to-LaTeX pipeline: abandoned in 2025 as beyond the time I could afford: is what made the difference concrete.
events.yaml holds no labels. traduction.yaml holds no facts. The generator resolves them at build time with --lang fr, --lang en, or --lang es. What enforcing this constraint looks like in practice, and why the discipline is worth the friction it creates.
A growing engine-oil catalog — brands, viscosities, prices — becomes a maintenance nightmare as a Markdown table and a verbose tangle as DITA XML. One YAML file holds each fact once and generates every table, doc page, and app view from it.
Learn how one YAML file can serve as a single source of truth for APIs, powering docs, HTML documentation, and even mobile apps.
