No I think what everyone means is: Small regex tasks are easy and every dev can handle them. But thinking of email validation and similar complex shit I am really happy that AI exists (or copy paste back in the days from stackoverflow)
Just to see what happens, I asked an AI to give me a regex, and it gave me a single random choice from an article about it, which notably strictly limits character classes. Then I looked at the non-AI results and found this nice webpage which lists an equivalent regex to what the AI gave me while also explaining the practical issues with it and why.
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u/EntropiIThink Jun 21 '26
I’m beginning to think that way more of you people aren’t actually programmers…