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People like to compare CRISPR as scissors or cut/copy-and-replace, but people should think of it more as 'find and replace all'.

in that context, it's much more understandable why the tool has drawbacks.

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Yeah, better analogy, but still a little flawed because that still makes it seem much better/precise than it is. It's "find and replace all" that might:

- occasionally match very similar, but not exact text

- will often subtly alter the text around the replacement area, either by deleting characters or altering others.

It’s more like pasting your genome into chatgpt and asking it to fix it

Sounds like my junior developer copy-pasting regular expression parts from stack overflow and pressing replace all while not really understanding what the funky character soup actually does. That fits your description pretty nicely

It's find-replace-all, but instead of being exact string matching, CRISPR uses somewhat imprecise RegEx.

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