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Why do I need this when I can use a coding agent to do it for me?
by ed_mercer 3mo ago
Why do I need this when I can use a coding agent to do it for me?
- dwroberts 3mo agoWhy would you make a non-deterministic agent do a task like this if an exact deterministic command line tool exists for it?
- ed_mercer 3mo agoso I don't bloat my system with random software that require maintenance and are a potential attack vector?
- SoMomentary 3mo agoYou could have your Coding agent use this to do it for you! Really though it's about using the right tool for the job, and this seems like a better choice to use a tool like this so you don't have your agent burn tons of tokens imperfectly working through all your documents at a slower pace. Personally I'll be giving this a whirl as part of my note distillation process. I end up with hundreds of pages of PDFs and docx files that I'm sure would be easy to convert with a dedicated tool.
- virajk_31 3mo agowhy would you to waste tokens when you already have open source options...