Zoomers & Boomers are the same (lemmy.ca)

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[-] otacon239@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

The day I started learning Regex was the day I felt like I was really learning computers. I went from 2 hour tasks to 15 minutes.

I doubt you’d even be able to reasonably explain what they are let alone how they work to the average person outside the Millennial generation.

I fear AI data processing will replace much of the Regex skill set. Why learn Regex when the computer just does it for you… 🙄

[-] mearce@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

I agree that regex is an important thing to learn. Not sure any old LLM would do a very good job, and I hope that no tool replaces people actually learning how to write regex.

I'm not sure what you mean about the average person outside the millennial generation not understanding them, though. Maybe I'm mistaken, but I don't think the 'average' person in any generation knows what regex is. Unless there is some reason the average millennial was actually exposed to them and forced to understand them?

As for being doubtful that anyone could understand them aside from a millennial, I assume you're being hyperbolic? Sort of sounds like "Kids these days can never learn what I learned!" (I'm teasing).

Anyway I'm in agreement with you. This thread did remind me of a pretty neat project that, while still requiring domain knowledge, could save some time and be a good learning tool without being as fallible of a crutch as an LLM.

Have not tried it, and am not an experienced developer, so I am curious to your thoughts/criticisms: https://github.com/pemistahl/grex