The Regex Gaslighting Experience

regex Senior developers Hard to swallow pills Imposter syndrome Code complexity Developer struggles Pattern matching Gaslighting Code anxiety

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The Regex Gaslighting Experience

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Senior devs handing you a bottle of "Hard to swallow pills" only to reveal that "REGEX IS NOT THAT COMPLICATED. YOU ARE JUST STUPID." is the programming equivalent of gaslighting. Sure, and I suppose ^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*\d)[A-Za-z\d]{8,}$ is just light bedtime reading? Nothing says "I'm intellectually superior" like pretending that hieroglyphics designed by sadists with keyboard Tourette's is actually simple. Next they'll tell us that CSS centering is intuitive and JavaScript promises are straightforward.

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