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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.

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