I like the idea of human readable identifiers. But generally feels like this class of error could be prevented with more type safety in the api and data model?

I like the idea of human readable identifiers. But generally feels like this class of error could be prevented with more type safety in the api and data model? Like deleteDevice(123) and deleteAccount(123), rather than delete(123). This is how REST is designed, the type of resource is already baked into the url.