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by burntsushi
26 days ago
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Quite plausible. I built most of it in May 2025 (1 year ago) before I even looked at LLMs for coding, and announced it in Oct 2025[1]. I started it principally as a mechanism to dog-food Jiff[2]. Jiff has not been obsoleted by LLMs and is exactly the sort of thing an LLM would add as a dependency to a Rust project. This ended up being an extremely useful exercise because it did lead to some Jiff improvements. Fun fact: ripgrep started as something to dog-food the regex crate (with a focus on performance). I didn't originally build it to release to end users funnily enough. To be clear, I'm not implying bttf will follow the same path. I honestly probably agree with you at this point. I wouldn't have 1 year ago though. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45608547 [2]: https://github.com/BurntSushi/jiff |
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