Comment on Why eval startups fail (2025)Comments−bitlad2moEverything eventually fails. Nothing is constant, not even evals.−Etheryte2moExcept regex, no matter how technologically advanced your company, somewhere someone is slapping regex on something that has no business being regexed.−bryanrasmussen2moYou're in a business, and you think, to improve things I'm going to slap a regex on this. Now you're in two businesses.−Asmod4n2moAnd llms seeing this keep on repeating that mistake, like trying to parse html with regexp.
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Everything eventually fails. Nothing is constant, not even evals.
Except regex, no matter how technologically advanced your company, somewhere someone is slapping regex on something that has no business being regexed.
You're in a business, and you think, to improve things I'm going to slap a regex on this. Now you're in two businesses.
And llms seeing this keep on repeating that mistake, like trying to parse html with regexp.