[jeremiahbuckley]

There’s nothing thing wrong with that approach if you’re working with jsonpaths on the regular. It’s all about time management, I guess. With json, and xml, and probably yaml, there is this recurring long-term pattern of:

1. Creat tree-structure document format that is flexible enough to handle all use cases.

2. Write a ton of content in this format.

3. Have to figure out a query pattern to accurately retrieve good info out of these structures.

Generally, I feel we’ve become good at querying normalized table data. But—-and maybe it’s just me being stupid—-wending through tree-structured data is still tricky. And I recently discovered LLMs are great at solving for it, if you ask clearly.

[TachyonicBytes]

The thing about querying tree-structured data being currently humanly harder than tabular data rings true to me, I always struggle with some very simple tree-sitter queries.