I've been there. You have a pile of messy, unstructured text — support tickets, meeting notes, customer emails — and you need to extract specific fields. Maybe it's a ticket priority, a product name, or a deadline. Your first instinct is regex. It works for the first 10 cases. Then the 11th breaks everything.
I spent two days crafting a beautiful regex pattern only to watch it fail on a slightly different phrasing. I felt like Sisyphus in a Python console. That's when I finally gave in and let AI do the heavy lifting.
The pain of pattern matching
I was building a dashboard that ingested raw support tickets from multiple channels. Each ticket had an unstructured body, but we needed to extract:
Priority (high/medium/low)
