I used a local model today to write a long form regex for me today. it would have taken me 30 minutes. instead it took 3 seconds and worked out of the box.

I think this is a perfect example of what LLMs should be used for.

[–] ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok. But did you understand the regex? That's what people are missing out on. The learning aspect.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

absolutely. I know regex, better than most devs I know personally.

I also don't use it all the time. I happened to have it up and just said, "hey fucker, give me the pcre regex to find all instances of these keywords in a string like this"

reviewed it, threw what I had into my code, ran my tests and everything was golden.