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Management: Fuck it, ship it.
The people at the top honestly don't give a fuck if it barely works as long as it's an excuse to cut costs. In things like Customer Service, barely working is a bonus, because it makes customers give up before they try to get their issue solved.
I mean, I bet it failed at making a regex that worked much faster than you could fail at writing a regex that worked. Sounds like progress! :D
I am always suspicious if a regex I write doesn't throw some form of pattern compilation error. It usually means I'm not even close to the correct solution.
You know what? If your management is telling you to use AI generated code to “go faster”, just go ahead and do it. But fork the repo first, in case you’re still around when they get fired and someone sensible says to put it back how it was before.
Git revert --hard no need to copy anything
git push --force
I know I can do --force-with-lease. I meant what I typed.
Shove it in there lol
If violence isn’t working, you’re not using enough violence
The problem is - you are far more likely to get fired when things go wrong :(
Well, if you just swap your CI to point af the fork, and then port over the non-ML delta of business logic, then you’re a fuckin hero and can write your own check, so long as you play it right. Depending on the company. And the leadership. And where you live. And how much of the kool-aid you drink. And-
But I digress. I do think it’d be quite possible to wrangle a promo out of a situation like that if you play it right.
As it learns from our data, no wonder it fucks up at regexps. They are the arcane knowledge not accessible to us mere mortals, nor to LLMs.
If you know even a little about how an LLM works it's obvious why regex is basically impossible for it. I suspect perl has similar problems, but no one is capable of actually validating that.
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}
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.
I love regex. I know, most don't, but I do. GPT/Claude can write some convincing code, but their regexes can be spotted a mile away.
Just outta curiosity:
Full o1 model
"\\id:\[^]]+\\\\[^]]+\\\"
Claude 3.5 Haiku:
Never used elisp, no idea of any of this is right lmao
Claude at least created an elisp function that looks ok
3.5 sonnet might do a lot better, idk I'm on the free plan with Claude lmao
o1 without Markdown misformatting:
\\id:\\[^]]+\\\\\[^]]+\\\
No idea what the rectangles are supposed to be, I just copy-pasted it
They are valid unicode points that your font doesn't know about.
... or at least they represent that, but I think there's a character that looks like one too.
It's U+E001 from a Private Use Area. The UnicodePad app renders it as something between 鉮 and 鋁 (separate boxes stricken through; I wasn't able to find it even with Google Lens)
this is how it looks for me. i can't find it with handwriting, so maybe a nonstandard kanji?
yup
I don't speak elisp, but I speak regexp. Looks like the LLM speaks neither.
that looks like a fork bomb
That's a lot of dollars, ching ching ching
Try breaking each character in the string into its own token, it’ll have an easier time because it’ll actually know what the string is
Gpt4-mini, the model that’s worse at everything but like 100 times smaller or whatever. Really cutting insight you have here.
This is like interviewing the child of a programmer and hiring based off of that.
Next you’ll be making hiring decisions based off of optical illusions and riddles.
This is like interviewing the child of a programmer and hiring based off of that.
I could land a job that way, but I'm just that fucking good. Lol.
Hey, let hiring managers enjoy their riddles!