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Stop writing the function that guesses what messy input means

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Every system I have ever built has a function in it that has to make a judgment call from messy input. Which category is this? Did that actually succeed? What kind of failure is this? The traditional answers are a chain of if statements, a keyword list, a regex, or a lookup table. They are all the…

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  1. 2026-09-14 12:41 · DEV Community — AI
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