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"AI is gonne take our jobs." The AI: (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/programmer_humor

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What do you mean it's impossible for it? I know how LLMs work but I don't know if any such limitations

Write me a regex that matches a letter repeated four times, followed by a 3 or 4 digit number

Here’s your regex: ([a-zA-Z])\1{3}\d{3,4}

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They aren't context aware, it's using statistical probability. It can replicate things it's seen a lot of like a tutorial regex. It can't apply that to make a more complicated one. Regex in the wild isn't really standard at all, because it's rarely used to solve common problems. It has a bunch of random regexs from code it analyzed and will spit something out that looks similar.