I misread the title as biff, and thought it was a back to the future reference. Turns out I need glasses AND it was a back to the future reference
Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
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Re: Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
#102I feel like this kind of tool has been completely obsoleted by LLMs (even local models). I've used similar tools such as tiny for Emacs, which is a DSL for generating text based on numeric ranges. Now, it's simply more efficient to ask AI.
Won't the most efficient LLMs just learn about and use tools like this, instead of crunching all the tokens to do it themselves?
Not really. Similarly to humans, it's easier to write code than read it; LLMs aren't particularly less efficient at doing off the cuff tasks vs reading in all of the tokens of documentation for a specific tool (assuming you did the legwork of manually feeding that tool to the LLM, which makes it less efficient for you) and then coming up with a solution. And that argument would only apply if there were custom tools for each of the infinite possible tasks, which there aren't.
Re: Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
#103$> brew install bttf Warning: No available formula with the name "bttf same with macports so it is pretty much not existing, cause I am not getting some binaries and drop them into some folder for some command line tool
It's a cargo package. There's an installation readme...
Re: Bttf is a command line datetime Swiss army knife
#104Everyone talking about "biff" should be aware that it's actually "bttf" like "back to the future"
There's a commit message that says otherwise:
> The new name, bttf, is a backronym for "biff, time to format!"
It credits this comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307552
However, "back to the future" might be more memorable. I'm surprised they didn't see it.