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Yes. It's so dramatically better it's not even funny. It's not that information doesn't exist out there, it's more that an LLM can give it to you in a few seconds and it's tailored to your specific situation. The second part is especially helpful if the internet answer is 95% correct but is missing something specific to you that ends up taking you 20 minutes to figure out.


> that ends up taking you 20 minutes to figure out

That 20 minutes, repeated over and over over the course of a career, is the difference between being a master versus being an amateur

You should value it, even if your employer doesn't.

Your employer would likely churn you into ground beef if there was a financial incentive to, never forget that


Yeah I strongly disagree. I want to spend time figuring the things that important to me and my career. I could care less about the one regex I write every year. Especially when I've learned and forgotten the syntax more times than I can count.


There's a funny quote about regex

"You had a problem. You tried to solve it with regex. Now you have two problems"

1) your original problem 2) your broken regex

I would like to propose an addition

"You had a problem. You tried to solve it with AI generated regex. Now you have three problems"

1) your original problem 2) your broken regex 3) your reliance on AI




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