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Tradeoffs (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] 2deck@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

If you're having to do repetitive shit, you might reconsider your approach.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Depending on the situation, repetitive shit might be unavoidable

Usually you can solve the issue by using regex, but regex can be difficult to work with as well

[–] stilgar 2 points 4 months ago

I've tried this, to convert a large json file to simplified yaml. It was riddled with hallucinations and mistakes even for this simple, deterministic, verifiable task.