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title: "The Humble Finite State Machine"

description: "Finite state machines are somewhat underrated"

date: "2026-05-01"

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Reading that title I expect roughly one of three responses.

1. What's a Finite State machine
2. Oh a post about something we talked about in the class that brought up Turing Machines in university, aren't these equivalent to Regex?
3. Finite state machines are neat for (insert use case) I wonder what this guy has to say about them

The third group maybe being subdivided between people whose use case seems niche and whose use case is clearly not niche.

## What are Finite state machines

## Why I consider them useful

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