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> There may be drastic differences in syntax and semantics between the massive matrix of terraform version + provider version(s) and they've shown to be absolutely terrible at navigating that, even if you specify versions specifically.

To be fair, humans have trouble with that as well.

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That is always the counter but that is not the promise of these tools to be as bad as humans are. Humans can also work their way through it. The context ruts these tools get into with terraform specifically they can never dig out of, it's pretty much worthless for it, at least as many times as I've tried. You will waste far more time trying to figure out where it messed up on something dead simple than if you just looked over a colleague's shoulder, who probably wouldn't run into the same kinds of basic mistakes like making up fields.

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