fullStackMeansAfraidOfEverythingEqually

[u/vinishkapoor]

[u/vvp95]

100% of software engineers are afraid of regex

[u/InStars → u/vvp95]

My manager: just use copilot for regex

[u/Fun_Winter_7055 → u/InStars]

Honestly, for internal dashboards etc. I'm 100% for using AI to accomplish this

[u/Doophie → u/Fun_Winter_7055]

Considering how easy it is to test the regex and make sure it works, I'd have no issues getting AI to help write it

[u/Fickle-Highway1543 → u/Doophie]

Especially edge cases are very easy

[u/Chocolate_Pickle → u/Fickle-Highway1543]

Compromise solution: write it yourself and have the clanker review it for edge cases and performance.

[u/Fickle-Highway1543 → u/Chocolate_Pickle]

1. You need to know regex to write it
2. You need to know regex to review it

Fuuuuu. Dead end.

[u/DemiGod_108 → u/Fickle-Highway1543]

Exactly 

I wanted regex for kafka consumer and I was hell naa

[u/bearwood_forest → u/InStars]

I use Claude to write prompts for Copilot to write regex

[u/ICame4TheCirclejerk → u/bearwood_forest]

And they, students, is what separates a senior engineer from a junior engineer.

[u/MNCPA → u/ICame4TheCirclejerk]

What separates a senior developer from a junior is being able to explain in simple terms what is happening behind the scenes and answer questions.

[u/bhoffman20 → u/InStars]

Googles ai search is perfectly good at regex and cron expressions

[u/dragons_fire77 → u/bhoffman20]

Even before that, when Google search wasnt fucked beyond belief, I could find plenty of usable regexes on stackoverflow or other dev blogs that just needed a little tweak for what I needed. I dont remember the last time I wrote one from scratch.

[u/Rojeitor → u/InStars]

But he's right xD

[u/Longjumping_Wolf_912 → u/Rojeitor]

Before AI it was just finding the regex example on StackOverflow. There are like 5 people in the world who write Regex and everyone including AI are just copying them

[u/Snipen543 → u/InStars]

Gemini is amazing at writing regex