Lol why are you getting downvoted this isn’t even a hot take. You are 100% right regex is famously enigmatic even among experienced software engineers.
Yea I come from the generation of reddit departures that left because of API lockdown and elimination of third party apps. Nowadays a lot of people join Lemmy because they got banned off of reddit for reasons of varying respectability. I would say it’s diluting the concentration of tech intel, as you say. Oh well.
A lot of lemmy is very anti-Ai. As an artist I’m very anti-Ai. As a veteran developer I’m very pro AI (with important caveats). I see it’s value; I see it’s threat.
I know I’m not in good company when I talk about its value on Lemmy.
Completely with you on this one. It’s awful when used to generate “art”, but once you’ve learned its short-comings and never blindly trust it it is such a phenomenal help in learning and assisting with code or finding something you’ve a hard time to find the right words for. And aside from generative use-cases neural networks are also phenomenally useful for assisting tasks in science, medicine and so on.
It’s just unfortunate we’re still in the “find out” phase of the information age. It’s like with the industrialization ~200 years ago, just with data… and unfortunately the lessons seem to be equally rough. All the generative tech will deal painful blows to our culture.
That’s a view from the perspective of utility, yeah. The downvotes here are likely also from a ethics standpoint, since most LLMs currently trained are doing so by using other peoples’ work without permission, all while using large amounts of water for cooling, and energy from our mostly coal-powered grid. This is also not mentioning the physical and emotional labor that many untrained workers are required to do when sifting through the datasets of these LLMs, removing unsavory data for extremely low wages.
A smaller, more specialized LLM could likely perform this same functionality with a much less training, on a more exclusive data set (probably only a couple of terabytes at its largest I’d wager), and would likely be small enough to run on most users’ computers after training. That’d be the more ethical version of this use case.
I don’t disagree with this hot take. But the major difference is the sheer resources needed to have an LLM in place of a “do one thing right” utility like sed. In that sense, they are incomparable.
Yo ill be 100 wjth you.
Regex is where something kike an LLM excells.
Don’t rely on an llm for coding, but… This is exactly where it should be in your toolbox.
If someone’s made the regex before, sure.
this is funny i have totally opposite experience
Lol why are you getting downvoted this isn’t even a hot take. You are 100% right regex is famously enigmatic even among experienced software engineers.
Yeah Lemmy used to have a core of tech Intel and that has slipped hard in the last 6 months.
Be what it do I guess. Dummies gonna dumb.
We are in this sea of like a million people who want to be cybersecurity professionals…
…and as a cybersecurity professional it’s adorable when I see vehement dissent.
Like y’all, I’ve been doing this. And if you want a recommendation, pipe down lol.
Yea I come from the generation of reddit departures that left because of API lockdown and elimination of third party apps. Nowadays a lot of people join Lemmy because they got banned off of reddit for reasons of varying respectability. I would say it’s diluting the concentration of tech intel, as you say. Oh well.
Lol yep. Also here from the reason for which you only care about a lot if you have done some kind of web develooment.
Edit: Jesus I just reread that. I literally just ripped the bong. Was a dumb sentence. I’ll leave it.
And we can see by the ratio that this was in fact a hot take.
A lot of lemmy is very anti-Ai. As an artist I’m very anti-Ai. As a veteran developer I’m very pro AI (with important caveats). I see it’s value; I see it’s threat.
I know I’m not in good company when I talk about its value on Lemmy.
Completely with you on this one. It’s awful when used to generate “art”, but once you’ve learned its short-comings and never blindly trust it it is such a phenomenal help in learning and assisting with code or finding something you’ve a hard time to find the right words for. And aside from generative use-cases neural networks are also phenomenally useful for assisting tasks in science, medicine and so on.
It’s just unfortunate we’re still in the “find out” phase of the information age. It’s like with the industrialization ~200 years ago, just with data… and unfortunately the lessons seem to be equally rough. All the generative tech will deal painful blows to our culture.
That’s a view from the perspective of utility, yeah. The downvotes here are likely also from a ethics standpoint, since most LLMs currently trained are doing so by using other peoples’ work without permission, all while using large amounts of water for cooling, and energy from our mostly coal-powered grid. This is also not mentioning the physical and emotional labor that many untrained workers are required to do when sifting through the datasets of these LLMs, removing unsavory data for extremely low wages.
A smaller, more specialized LLM could likely perform this same functionality with a much less training, on a more exclusive data set (probably only a couple of terabytes at its largest I’d wager), and would likely be small enough to run on most users’ computers after training. That’d be the more ethical version of this use case.
I don’t disagree with this hot take. But the major difference is the sheer resources needed to have an LLM in place of a “do one thing right” utility like sed. In that sense, they are incomparable.
I mean fair.
I guess the caveat here should be fucking learn regex first, lamo.
Don’t use it works not necessary. Google is probably still better if you’re looking for regex for an email or something like that
And also don’t just rely on its answer for prod.
I think they’re arguing for having the LLM generate the regex. And I certainly would not trust an LLM to do that right.
Yeah, it’s way more sensible to use some of the available regex utilities like this. Although it’s always funny to see what an LLM comes up with.