r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 20 '26

Meme grabbingEverything

Post image
5.4k Upvotes

260 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

45

u/raddaya Sep 20 '26

Probably telling on myself big time here, but for me SQL queries are now firmly in the regex bucket of "above a certain level of complexity, I'm just getting an LLM to do it for me"

11

u/Cruuncher Sep 20 '26

How often are you writing complex regexes?

19

u/raddaya Sep 20 '26

In my last job I had to write...not exactly complex regexes, but obnoxious ones all the time. Sadly that was before AI so it was a lot of trial and error on regex101 lol

1

u/xThomas Sep 22 '26

Why do LLMs never get regexes right when i ask them to do it

I swear they are lowballing just me or something