There was a meme on an explain-this subreddit, basically saying that regular expressions are scarier than nuclear war.

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There was a meme on an explain-this subreddit, basically saying that regular expressions are scarier than nuclear war. Most explanations were "this is a regex", while I explained what it should be matching, and how it was broken.

This got me accused of using ChatGPT.

Nope, Just Another Perl Hacker who has been using regular expressions for a quarter century.