A representative case of the oddly simple things that LLMs are bad at

Does it seem right that computer systems that use billions of dollars of hardware, electricity, and clean water need my help to add line numbers to a few kilobytes of plain text? No, it does not. But at least this gives me deterministic results for one part of the processing.

Recently, though, I’ve observed that Claude Skills are interestingly clever on the command line. Maybe agentic just means “can use Unix pipes.”

🔗 LLM proofreading update