[mdaniel]

> For me using terraform is quicker than clicking things up or using CLI even when initially developing things

then you obviously have every single resource name, required values, and relationships between them memorized because in my experience post-facto encoding of something into TF can be valuable to the organization but trying to _discover_ the providers, iam, required fields to achieve a desired outcome is crawling over broken glass as compared to click-ops-ing something in place

Hell, there's even a browser extension to record the AWS calls so one can at least see what was done later for replay, but with GCP they have their own sneaky RPC something-something encoding so that idea's off the table

[flanked-evergl]

> then you obviously have every single resource name, required values, and relationships between them memorized

I don't.

> crawling over broken glass as compared to click-ops-ing something in place

I do not experience reading the terraform provider docs like crawling over broken glass but okay.

I program with Python also and it's not like I have memorized every class and function either, but still, I and millions of other people somehow manage get by.