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MixedClaude, ChatGPT · 22 Feb 2025

Claude and ChatGPT both proved incapable of creating regex to do this; my code wasn't perfect either, but it was closer than they came

gcanyon on Hacker News

In the thread “Do you want to be doing this when you're 50? (2012)”

Helped: Manual coding produced better results than AI attempts.

Got in the way: AI models failed to create correct regex for URL parsing.

… 1. Stripping down various badly-formed urls to just their main domain -- Claude and ChatGPT both proved incapable of creating regex to do this; my code wasn't perfect either, but it was closer than they came. 2. …