>This was the most-discussed finding in the HN thread. The general reaction: an LLM company using regexes for sentiment analysis is peak irony. >Is it ironic?

>This was the most-discussed finding in the HN thread. The general reaction: an LLM company using regexes for sentiment analysis is peak irony. >Is it ironic? Sure. Is it also probably faster and cheaper than running an LLM inference just to figure out if a user is swearing at the tool? Also yes. Sometimes a regex is the right tool. I'm reading an LLM written write up on an LLM tool that just summarizes HN comments. I'm so tired man, what the hell are we doing here.