If AI has one blessing, it's not having to understand FUCKING REGEX anymore.
regex is the dumbest shit ever imagined>not turing complete>human writable but not human readable>impossible to debug - either you wrote it correctly the first time or you have to start over>used inappropriately everywhere to parse things it shouldn't be used for, leading to countless bugs that can't be fixed
>*the only regex I know. is it over for me?
oh yeah forgot the best flaw>can't match an empty string
>>109802169>can't match an empty stringa* matches zero or more a
>>109802111Ironically Claude forgets to use the Perl Regex mode of grep and thus misses multi-line strings in code.
>>109802111(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])
>>109802111everyone always memes on regex, but once you learn it, it's actually really simple and incredibly easy to use (not to mention absurdly useful)what made it click for me was literally physically drawing it out as a finite state machine during the final exam of my compilers courseit was a do or die moment, and the pressure really baked it in for me, i guess
>>109802193doesn't work on an empty stringif you want a pattern that matches an empty string, you can't do it, even though it should be trivial
>>109802290yes yes we all get the point of it, but it's the worst possible way to do itit's also incredibly slow
>>109802289does this make mustard gas?
>>109802289/@/ and sending a verification email works better
>>109802290>was literally physically drawing it out as a finite state machineok
>>109802146>not human readable/x modifier in perl is great for longer regexes, you can break it up into several lines and add comments.
>>109802111>not having to understand FUCKING REGEXBrainlet.Also:>"Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two problems."
>>109802169>match an empty string^$
>>109802427nerve gas
>>109802111Skill issue
>>109802111yep but a lot of people get upset regex knowledge is totally worthless now
>>109802111AI is fucking amazing. >Make my own music and songs with Ace Step>My own chatbots with Ollama >Make and manipulate my own images and deep fakes with ConfyUI>My own TTS model And thats just me, let's see what other benefits we get>Destroying faggot "artists" forcing them to get a real job>Destroying faggot CoDeRz forcing them to get real jobs >Pissing off libs Yesh, AI is based as fuck.
>>109802619nope
>>109802735Sounds like a problem between you and whatever package you picked.
>>109802111regex is fun
>>109802111Regex is not particularly difficult to understand, you just haven't tried properly. You instead look things up ad hoc. This is like trying to learn to drive a car by looking on stack overflow every time you find a new way to wreck.
>>109802111I just use regexr to figure out what passes and what doesn'tit's really not that difficult to build or decode a regex with a cheat sheet and a live test bed
>>109802735Retard
>>109802169so what is your exact spec, since i assume you'll reject the obvious answer, ^\"\"$for obtuse reasons
^\"\"$
>>109802111What a fucking slop regexWhy would you allow any special character in the username other than "." by default? Why would you allow _ in the domain? Why would you not lowercase the whole thing? Why would you allow clusters of special characters?This is a clusterfuck.
>>109803108in what possible world would that match an empty string?>>109803055maybe but it still doesn't match an empty stringunironically C is better for string pattern matching than regex>faster>can parse anything>can be made readable>filters out idiots by making their software crash or get corrupted
>>109803227>in what possible world would that match an empty string?is an empty string not: ""If not, define it
I enjoy creating regexes.Seems like a skill issue.
>>109803234no that's not an empty string, that would be two double quotes, which is not an empty string
>>109803273Okay, could you define an empty string then?
>>109802619>>109803227It literally matches an empty string doe, the fuck are you on niga
the ONE advantage of regexthis is the ONLY thing it is good foryou can include a regex compiler in your program, so that the user can change the pattern at runtimeit would be hard to do that with Cthe other advantage is job security - they can't fire you if you are the only one who understands your 2000 character pattern specific to some business requirement - oh but now they can because an LLM will rewrite it with some probability of not fucking up too badly
>>109802111get your regex license first, mate
>>109802290Kinda, but reading some undocumented regex and reconstructing what it's actually trying to do is like reading some random assembly instructions.The issue with regexes is that it really encourages "being clever", and "being clever" is not something you want your colleagues to be in your code base because being clear is always better.
>>109802111You can easily understand it. In fact, your image explains it, what's so hard about it?
>>10980327311/10 literally made me wheeze for almost a minute
>>109802111you need regex to write deterministic evals,
>>109803343>being clear is always betterDepends on what you have to sacrifice.
>>109803807No I need AI to write regex to write deterministic evals
>>109802146>used inappropriately everywhere to parse things it shouldn't be used for, leading to countless bugs that can't be fixedBlame UNIX weenies. Lispchads have ascended beyond the need for base text.
>>109802728You didn't make or create anything, you fucking nigger. Prompting is not creating, you fucking faggot. You outsourced process of creation to other entity, you delusional nigger!
>>109802289
>>109803891Boohoo
>>109802728I get the hate for artist but I never understand why people on 4chan fetishize real jobs like normies when not even a few years ago having a job was something you got made fun off.
>>109803918nigger
>>109802146>not turing completeWhy would you want it to be turing complete?>human writable but not human readableMaybe for you>used inappropriately everywhere to parse things it shouldn't be used for, leading to countless bugs that can't be fixedNot the fault of regex
>>109802169Do you mean that ONLY matches an empty string, with no newlines or anything? You could try using ^\z instead of ^$ perhaps but it depends on what language and if using multi-line or not
>>109803937CoDeRz are lazy, arrogant, incompetent, faggots. >Release software 6 months late >Full of missing dependencies >Full of broken APIs>Completely unoptimized >Security so bad even Zoomer Aiden the script kiddy could hack it>I MUST INSERT MUH GENDER IDENTITY HERE>That'll be $100 plus tip, faggotIn 2026>Develop your own version in a matter of a couple of days instead of months>Optimized to your liking>More secure >Less to no bugs or issues >That'll be $0, faggotIt's be one thing if modern software weren't piled of complete shit, but here we are
>>109802728This. I saw too many>one day in life of a software engineer at $FAANG_COMPANYwith>11:00 - get up>11:10 - drive his porshe to the office>11:30 - daily standup>12:00 - lunch break>13:00-15:00 - working>16:00 - workday over, walking the dog / afterwork or whatever socialnigger activity>a shot of a monthly payment: 30k$ >without a degree>with 1 YoESWEnigs can go die in hell. You had it too good for too long.
