@nixCraft
Unfortunately they always fire you first and only notice that they need you a month after.

@nixCraft I knew someone who put an apparent innocent condition in a mile long query that made never fullfill it, and once a month when it was used he commented it each time

@nixCraft Pesky X stealing our jobs!

@nixCraft not so much anymore since we have regex debugger like https://regex101.com/

@nixCraft *only if it works and somehow infiltrated to the production.

@nixCraft but but but I won't understand it either a week from now.

@nixCraft
Did an awk script for backup scheduling for some sql-files on Windows for a job once. Could not get case-insensitive matches to work, so I generated regexes like [aA] for a whole bunch of strings. Deployed the generated script, threw out the generator. Sad to say I don't work at Adcom (Nidaros data) anymore :( .

@nixCraft security through obscurity ftw

@nixCraft isn't this just perl with less steps?

@nixCraft ah yes, the job where I spend all my time trying to decipher my own regex. I think I'd rather just be fired please

@nixCraft I knew a guy whose job was programming robots to destructively test automotive parts. He wrote all his code and test suites in Postscript. Try to find another engineer who can do that!

@nixCraft well except chatgpt can write a better regex and explain it to you like a 5 year old in 3 seconds.

@nixCraft honestly, it only takes one or two good ones to lock in that sweet sweet job security....

@nixCraft Truth be told, the only surefire thing I’ve found ChatGPT useful for is writing regex 😂

@nixCraft I wonder if ChatGPT is already asked frequently "What does this Regex mean...?". Probably is.

@nixCraft and you are stuck with code you no longer understand. No thanks. Been there, done that.

@nixCraft and after a week you can’t read it yourself

@nixCraft “Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems."