• ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    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.

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      5 days ago

      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}

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        5 days 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.