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oguz-ismail | 4 months ago

> learn it

Waste of time. Have some "AI" write it for you

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MobiusHorizons|4 months ago

Learning is almost never a waste of time even if it may not be the most optimal use of time.

sph|4 months ago

This is an excellent way to put it and worth being quoted far and wide.

9dev|4 months ago

If you stop learning the basics, you will never know when the sycophantic AI happily lures you down a dark alley because it was the only way you discovered on your own. You’ll forever be limited to a rehashing of the bland code slop the majority of the training material contained. Like a carpenter who’s limited to drilling Torx screws.

If that’s your goal in life, don’t let me bother you.

superb_dev|4 months ago

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RHSeeger|4 months ago

That's not entirely fair. It's relatively easy to learn the basics of regular expressions. But it's also relatively easy, with that knowledge, to write regular expressions that

- don't work the way you want them to (miss edge cases, etc)

- fail catastrophically (ie, catastrophic backtracking, etc) which can lead to vulnerabilities

- are hard to read/maintain

I love regular expressions, but they're very easy to use poorly.