I didn’t get the “it’s easy to program without bugs” vibe at all, and OP even mentioned an edge case that took their parser down (BUG!)
Neither the human nor the AI will catch every edge case, especially if the data can be irregular. I think the point they were making is more along the lines of “when you do it yourself, you can understand and refine and fix it more easily.”
If an LLM had done my regular expressions early in my career, I’d have only !maybe! have learned just what I saw and needed to know. I’m almost certain the first time I saw (?:…) I’d have given up and leaned into the AI heavily.
Neither the human nor the AI will catch every edge case, especially if the data can be irregular. I think the point they were making is more along the lines of “when you do it yourself, you can understand and refine and fix it more easily.”
If an LLM had done my regular expressions early in my career, I’d have only !maybe! have learned just what I saw and needed to know. I’m almost certain the first time I saw (?:…) I’d have given up and leaned into the AI heavily.