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Is regex enough? I tested span-01 on mixed-language text
Community description: I measured span-01, a model built for decisions, against a regex and a general-purpose chat model over 176 calls: where it wins, where it loses, and why the instruction wording swings the result.
Dev.to | Sep 28, 2026 | sunnydachs
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On boundary cases, the model beats the regex by a wide margin. Conversely, on my real scripts, the regex was enough. The opposite: brand names, personal names and code fragments — falsely flagged.
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