GitHub code search
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1 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 19, 2025 by Jeff Huber · across every show →
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Aug 19, 2025 positive
Huber: Regex handles 90% of code queries; embeddings add marginal improvement
“My guess is that, like, for code today, it's something like, 90% of queries or 85% of queries can be satisfactorily run with regex. Regex is obviously, like, the dominant pattern used by Google code search, GitHub code search, but you maybe can get, like, 15% …”