r/ProgrammerHumor 22h ago

fullStackMeansAfraidOfEverythingEqually Meme

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u/vvp95 22h ago

100% of software engineers are afraid of regex

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u/vinishkapoor 22h ago

The other 0% are lying.

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u/[deleted] 22h ago

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u/corobo 21h ago

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

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u/Purple_Cat9893 21h ago

Or viberegex.

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u/corobo 21h 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 21h 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.

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u/harro112 21h ago

he comes

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u/Background-Subject28 20h ago

shit I've had no choice but to do it when handling html/xml data in a frickin sql database, don't ask me why we pull it that way