> these tools are engaging only at the level of text Couldn't we say the same thing about almost all UNIX/Linux coreutils? There's no way to get a strongly-typ

> these tools are engaging only at the level of text Couldn't we say the same thing about almost all UNIX/Linux coreutils? There's no way to get a strongly-typed array/tree of folders, files, and metadata from `ls`; it has to be awk-ed and sed-ed into compliance. There's no way to get a strongly-typed dictionary of command-line options and what they do for pretty much every coreutil; you have to invoke `something --help` and then awk/sed that output again. These coreutils are at their core, only stringly-typed, which makes life more difficult than it strictly needs to be. Everything is a bag of bytes, or a stream to be manipulated. This philosophy simply leaked into LLMs.