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Proof that Regex is Hate Speech! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Regex's are not something you need AI for as there are already tools that explain them for you. Use regexr.com or a similar tool.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Regex's

Foxes

Boxes

Hexes

Regexes

You can do it. You too can pluralize without an apostrophe.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Oxen

Children

Brethren

Regexen

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

I've begun to understand that the modern meaning of an apostrophe is "oh shit! Here comes an 's'".

Sadly, I am gradually growing okay with that idea.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks for pointing that out, it's a bad habit I've picked up!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

____ are not something you need AI for as there are already tools that explain ____ for you. Use Wikipedia or a similar tool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don't agree that AI has no uses, you just have to know when to use it. There are multiple times I have scoured documentation and official forums of a niche tool to few results only to ask ChatGPT and get far closer to my goal in 2 minutes than I did in 30. I know the AI has to be getting that info from somewhere, but if Google, Reddit, and a forum search can't find it then I am sorry but I am going to ask an AI.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeha, also anything else has plenty of books and internet content on them so you really don't need AI for those too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Groups multiple tokens together and creates a capture group for extracting a substring or using a backreference

With an explanation like this, I thing I'll take the AI.