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>but... we could already do that? that sums up so much. the emperor has no clothes. few see it. its inferior to the modern purpose built tools. we act impresse

by bob29 4y ago

>but... we could already do that? that sums up so much. the emperor has no clothes. few see it. its inferior to the modern purpose built tools. we act impressed a simple program can be created from a prompt, what has every programmer been doing already for the last 10 years with google search and stackoverflow?

yunwal 4y ago
I think building regexes is a good example of where chatgpt/copilot is useful. It’s not that it’s particularly difficult or requires much understanding, just very time consuming compared to writing an English language description and walking through an example.
- bob29 4y ago
  Useful compared to writing a regex in notepad yeah. Last time I was challenged by regex I easily found very fancy web page with so many nice features. Actual documentation, ability to select a specific regex engine (or implementation or whatever you call it) , real-time results on test data, highlighting that shows how the regex works, etc. and that was years ago I’m sure there’s even better web apps now. I can’t imagine having a better experience asking AI chat than using a web app made for the purpose
  - yunwal 4y ago
    Do you have a link to the site? Being able give some examples and just state in plain English what you want the capture groups to be is pretty much my ideal regex experience (in other words, I don’t want to think about the semantics of regex ever).
    - sandkoan 4y ago
      This might be what they're referring to: https://regex101.com/ https://regex101.com/.
      - yunwal 4y ago
        That’s what I figured. Maybe it’s just me but for complicated use-cases this still takes me forever to get the right regex string, especially with capture groups.
motoxpro 4y ago
Another comment from this thread seems pretty cool to me. https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch

by bob29 4y ago

yunwal 4y ago

I think building regexes is a good example of where chatgpt/copilot is useful. It’s not that it’s particularly difficult or requires much understanding, just very time consuming compared to writing an English language description and walking through an example.

bob29 4y ago
Useful compared to writing a regex in notepad yeah. Last time I was challenged by regex I easily found very fancy web page with so many nice features. Actual documentation, ability to select a specific regex engine (or implementation or whatever you call it) , real-time results on test data, highlighting that shows how the regex works, etc. and that was years ago I’m sure there’s even better web apps now. I can’t imagine having a better experience asking AI chat than using a web app made for the purpose
- yunwal 4y ago
  Do you have a link to the site? Being able give some examples and just state in plain English what you want the capture groups to be is pretty much my ideal regex experience (in other words, I don’t want to think about the semantics of regex ever).
  - sandkoan 4y ago
    This might be what they're referring to: https://regex101.com/ https://regex101.com/.
    - yunwal 4y ago
      That’s what I figured. Maybe it’s just me but for complicated use-cases this still takes me forever to get the right regex string, especially with capture groups.

motoxpro 4y ago

Another comment from this thread seems pretty cool to me. https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch