Experiment design for future bets

Problem

Potential future directions for YAML versioning and migration — such as automatic schema evolution, backward-compatible additive-only contracts, or live migration during compilation — represent significant investment but have uncertain payoff. There is no framework for designing lightweight validation experiments that could de-risk these bets before committing engineering resources. Without structured experimentation, decisions about versioning strategy will be based on intuition rather than evidence, increasing the chance of costly direction changes later.

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