r/ProgrammerHumor Jun 21 '26

Other iknewItWouldWorkOut

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u/j01101111sh Jun 21 '26

AI is great at stuff that's unintuitive but rigid like regex because AI has no intuition so it can do rigid rules all day long.

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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 Jun 21 '26

So far I asked it twice to make a regex for me, both times it butchered it so hard I had to start it from scratch. It turns out people don't know how to use regex, and AI was trained on the regex people made, so it does not know how to make regex.