> I agree with you, but every non-engineer I know using these tools 100% will drag and drop a PDF into a chatbot I'm an engineer and use my coding agent to dea

> I agree with you, but every non-engineer I know using these tools 100% will drag and drop a PDF into a chatbot I'm an engineer and use my coding agent to deal with PDFs all the time. It can reach for unix tools if it needs them. I don't think I understand why this is a problem - it uses tokens, but it removes drudgery. This is the entire promise of the technology.