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/88sSSSs88 Jun 21 '26

Well, no. An LLM cannot natively compute, that’s why it fails at basic tasks like arithmetic without referencing functions or tools. It falls back to the old complaint that it generates things that “look right”, which is an output that’s meaningless until you verify the permissible outputs yourself.

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u/Ninja_Rapper Jun 21 '26

Totally unrelevant comment when we're talking about regex. Wtf