Post #3284596
2026-06-09 21:06 UTC
@veronica@mastodon.online @ehproque@neopaquita.es @jschauma@mstdn.social The frustration from trying to get an AI to build you a regex from examples is a great way to learn regex yourself.
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@veronica@mastodon.online 2026-06-09 21:10
@kerfuffle@mastodon.online @ehproque@neopaquita.es @jschauma@mstdn.social I enjoy writing RegExes. It's so satisfying when they almost don't fail! (I wrote a neat one today actually. It parses Python dependency strings.)
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@ehproque@neopaquita.es 2026-06-09 21:22
@kerfuffle@mastodon.online @veronica@mastodon.online @jschauma@mstdn.social I have a colleague who wrote some ~200 character long regexes, extremely inefficient, with tons of hardcoded stuff, using copilot. And yet, somehow they work (for now).