🧒 Explain like I'm 5
Imagine you're trying to find a toy in a messy room. If you keep looking in the same wrong places over and over, it takes forever. Catastrophic backtracking is like that—a regex gets stuck trying many wrong paths, and a bad guy can make it freeze your game.
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Senior-level deep dive: internals, pitfalls, and a self-interview ladder.
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