This stuff stands on the foundations it's built off of. It's very hard to argue against the stoic determinism of an `ls` call.

And all the success stories I've seen in people using these tools have had a similar theme: top level might be LLM-y but you rush to get to deterministic straightforward building blocks so that you can have reliability.

That, to me, looks like writing up a bunch of small programs to help establish vocabularies and workflows to avoid just churning and getting lost in the weeds.

I'd be interested in seeing some future form of process orientation, but in the meantime.... shells in general have proven they are decently good at tying stuff together quite well.

`ls dir | grep thingy | process` gonna involve less possibility of annoying drift and churn than "run process on all the files with thingy in their name in directory"