A recirculated claim that bypassing regular expressions is a highly advantageous strategy sparks debate among software developers
DeepMind's Xiao Ma and founder Bojan Tunguz backed the claim
Positive users celebrate AI handling regex as a win that justifies skipping learning it, while negative users call regex stupid or insult the idea.
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@shafu0x wt[hf]\s+you|u/s+mean\?
@shafu0x Learning regex taught me about lexers, which helped me to understand compilers better. Using regex taught me about the limitations of parsing
@shafu0x Really useful when parsing text though.
@shafu0x copy paste stackoverflow till post-ai
@danielrmay weird flex but ok
I feel this way about so many technologies.
turns out never learning regex was genius
@shafu0x I’m afraid it’s still very much worth knowing so you can verify the correctness of or diagnose the issues with generated regex
@shafu0x As a self-taught engineer, it was my first real exposure to Chomsky hierarchy, and more deeply language theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy
@shafu0x Regex feels less like something you learn and more like something you reference as needed, at least at first glance.
On the flip side, it looks like you can get away with bloody murder with it anywhere it's allowed, so I wonder if maybe I shouldn't deep dive it sometimes...
@shafu0x Just a demonstration of why the "learning anything is useless now we have AI" aphorism might not be right. Apologies for interfering with your engagement strategy :o)
@sandrorybarik genius
@shafu0x also it’s just not that hard
@shafu0x regex for me was like vi commands -- i learned a workable subset that is slightly different from everyone else's workable subsets because only a handful of freaks know and leverage the whole capability
@shafu0x Reg was the most stupid thing that happened in the tech history and unfortunately all the LLMs are dying for it by default
@shafu0x 😆😆😆😆I think everyone can agree that ai taking care of regex for us is a win
@vexxed344 @shafu0x yes, they’re very useful but you don’t have to actually write them anymore by hand because of LLMs
@shafu0x Turns out never learning to code was genius.
@shafu0x This will be true for DSA in few years.
@IliaReingold dude I hated it 😂
@shafu0x With enough time, never learning anything is genious.