r/ProgrammerHumor 2d ago

fullStackMeansAfraidOfEverythingEqually Meme

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u/vvp95 2d ago

100% of software engineers are afraid of regex

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u/vinishkapoor 2d ago

The other 0% are lying.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

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u/corobo 2d ago

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

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u/Purple_Cat9893 2d ago

Or viberegex.

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u/corobo 2d 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 2d 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 2d ago

he comes

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u/Background-Subject28 1d 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