so no. Before llms came around, lots of people were hobby programmers. We learned. Sorry to be blunt, but being a hobbyist is not an excuse. The best programmers I know are hobbyists

i haven't come across many. But i have written a lot.

you should own your data. So yes

by "completing it" do you mean having something that seems like it works? Or something that you know works? If it's the former then you've just had the computer do the easy part (creating something) and skipped the actually hard part (making it robust).

Are errors handled properly, is all input being validated? If using https, are you actually verifying certificates? This sort of thing

cryptic != complex. Are they cryptic? yes. Are they complex? not really, if you can understand "one or more" or "zero or more" and some other really simple concepts like "one of these" or "not one of these" or "this is optional". You could explain these to a child. It's only because they look cryptic that people think they are complex. Unless you start using backreferences and advanced concepts like those (which are not usually needed in most cases) they are very simple. long != complex

it is perfectly descriptive. It is not a forum. I wish it was, but those went pretty much extinct. If they called it a forum it'd be lying

yes, "complex" regexes are quite simple too. Complex regexes are long, not difficult. They appear complex because you have to "inline" everything. They really are not that hard.

Don't. It's a horrible overheating piece of crap. I literally cannot shoot more than about 3 minutes of video with the flash turned on (at 1080p, not 4k, and not encoding as hevc either). The phone overheats and turns off the flash.

Keeping the phone in my pocket, out of direct sunlight in my car? I see the "3d buildings have been disabled because your phone needs to cool down" every single day. And I live in Malta; in the summer it's a 20 minute trip, at most.

And even then, the battery life sucks anyway.

Android 16 is buggy af too, though that's not specific to the 7a.

does the regex search for what you wanted to? Does it work in all cases? Can I be confident that it will find all instances i care about, or will I still have to comb the code manually?

tests can never prove correctness of code. All they can prove is "the thing hasn't failed yet". Proper reasoning is always needed if you want a guarantee.

If you had the llm write the regex for you, I can practically guarantee that you won't think of, and write tests for, all the edge cases.

yes they can. I regularly do. Regexes aren't hard to write, their logic is quite simple. They're hard to read, yes, but they are almost always one-offs (ex, substitutions in nvim).

1% slowdown is pretty bad. You'd still do better just not using it. 19% is huge!