find has awful ergonomics that are completely unlike any other common unix tool. I can never remember the syntax, how the flags work, or what order things need to be in.

Let's use an example I just dug up of using find:

To list and remove all regular files named core starting in the directory /prog that are larger than 500KB, enter:

  find /prog -type f -size +1000 -print -name core -exec rm {} \;

OK first, how in the hell is 1000 == 500kb? Is that a bug in my example[0]? What does `-print` do exactly? And that backslash at the end? I have no clue what that signifies. I'm never going to remember this madness. I'd probably have resorted to writing a bash script in a file by now. But with fd it becomes manageable and memorable for future tasks:

To list and remove all regular files named core starting in the directory /prog that are larger than 500KB, enter:

  fd --type=file --size=+500k ^core$ ./prog -x rm {}

Now that's something that makes immediate sense even if you've never touched the tool before. Not to mention, it doesn't end up in my .git and other ignored directories.

[0] https://kb.iu.edu/d/admm