Comment by ryanschaefer

2 hours ago

A strange issue I’ve found is careless use of AI at my job has lead to many people rolling their own incomplete mini parsers. Think YAML parsers of a frontmatter that expects either `key: value` exactly or treats `item1, item2, …` as a list.

It’s a litmus test I use to see if someone actually glanced over what the AI generated.

This feels like a modern version of people writing regex to validate email addresses: employing a complicated, yet incomplete roll-your-own approach as the wrong solution to a problem