Comment by isqueiros

Being the "regex guy" at work was also my thing. I was even in the process of making a regexr-like extension for vscode, but right about then everyone jumped ship to AI and making vscode extensions kinda felt like a last years thing.

They really are a "tool for the job" type thing, and I've seen the abuses people put them through. The fact that we struggled to know when to reach for it before worries me that this will be exacerbated now that we don't even read our own code.