Remember writing regex by hand? A one-liner captures how AI quietly erased a core coder skill
prasenx · x · 2026-10-01
A one-liner — "remember writing regex by hand" — resonates as a marker of how LLMs have quietly erased a once-essential programming skill, turning regex authorship into a nostalgic memory for developers.
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