On: Why eval startups fail (2025)

[bitlad]

Everything eventually fails. Nothing is constant, not even evals.

[Etheryte → bitlad]

Except regex, no matter how technologically advanced your company, somewhere someone is slapping regex on something that has no business being regexed.

[bryanrasmussen → Etheryte]

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.

[Asmod4n → Etheryte]

And llms seeing this keep on repeating that mistake, like trying to parse html with regexp.