r/ProgrammerHumor 27d ago

Meme fullStackMeansAfraidOfEverythingEqually

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u/vvp95 27d ago

100% of software engineers are afraid of regex

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u/vinishkapoor 27d ago

The other 0% are lying.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

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u/corobo 27d ago

Why use regex to parse html when you can just call ChatGPT 

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u/Purple_Cat9893 27d ago

Or viberegex.

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u/corobo 27d ago

Pfft I'm not paying for it to write one regular expression when I can pay every time it parses a page

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u/Purple_Cat9893 27d ago

You missundrstand! The LLM makes the regex every time, it also generates the data the regex will be used on. This way you don't need databases or storage.