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AlphaDec: A human-readable alternative to ULID/Snowflake IDs
AlphaDec, a timezone-agonistic time format for humans, machines, and AI - firasd/alphadec
LLM & AI-Native: Its structured, tokenizable nature makes it powerful primitive for time-based reasoning, prompt engineering, and log analysis in AI systems. Time-based partitioning (e.g., logs by 2025_M) Fast range queries with simple string matching Index stability (no random insert churn like UUIDs) Optional semantic suffixes without breaking order Notice the first two characters remain the same ( N1) as both dates fall within the same period and arc, but the bar-beat coordinates diverge significantly ( K9 vs B7), reflecting the accumulated temporal drift.
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