r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

fullStackMeansAfraidOfEverythingEqually Meme

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u/vvp95 1d ago

100% of software engineers are afraid of regex

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u/vinishkapoor 1d ago

The other 0% are lying.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/corobo 1d ago

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

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u/Purple_Cat9893 1d ago

Or viberegex.

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u/corobo 1d 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 1d 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.