If, by bible, you refer to the holy book of the local Building Code; then no, I have not.

and again; the regex in the script generated works, it’s just a teeny bit cursed and maybe a little bit sentient. Praise be to the Omnissaiah, and its blessed machine.

well, it works, and i don’t need to touch it.

remaking what is already working would cost more time.

regex is computationally pretty cheap, from what I’ve read; due to something about it being a simple AND gate or something… . IDR, and to be honest it doesn’t really matter in the era of 16-core/32thread 5GHz processors… but when you just want it to work… it does “just work”. /shrug.

it is a truly absurd number, simply due to the inane BS variations on terminology and notation.

It might have been more reasonable to train a local LLM on this material and then just query -that-… but hey 30ish seconds of claude’s free tier usage; and i’ve got a script that’s ~99.99% as good as a human in terms of pattern recognition. Pretty neat when you think about it.

My skillset is geared towards meatsacks and things that go boom. LLMs have been a massive boon to the 1% of my job that needs a code monkey.

As long as people still talk to each other, and things need exploding, I’ll have a job. Heck, if we somehow get to a point where money isnt needed, I’d still do what I do simply 'cuz I like it.

sweet merciful torvalds, that must have sucked.

Glad you made it out of that hellhole.

Not really. There will only ever be about a hundred people who ever use this tool, and it’s really just a massive timesaver that keeps people from needing to open a smorgasbord of files to get a few tidbits from each file; then collate it into one doc…

If I get ~99.99% of all the information, and one hundred people use this, odds are, nobody will ever see the .01% edge case of missed info. and even if it does happen, it’s not like it’s obsfucated information in each file, it’s just a pain to open a hundred files and wait for them all to load at once through the disk-heavy GUI application we have to use.

simpler to just read via the regex patterns, and then put it out into the terminal for the info needed.

I could either take several tedious hours to write out several thousand regex patterns by hand to automatically recognize differing formats of notation for this thing I’m doing IRL…

or I could have an LLM do it in a few seconds, and it’ll get 99.99% of the cases, missing maybe one case every hundred thousand…

take your guess as to which option I chose.

LLMs are a tool. I use it as such.

hahahaha get reported scambot

not a meme, OP needs to post more funnies.

here, I’ll start:

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TILL ALL ARE ONE.

He has joined with the Allspark. We can only hope it was a peaceful passing.

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