> * For example, if I wanted to do a simple find-and-replace on my 2021 M1, I'd have to use something like grep (a tool originally written by Ken Thompson in 1973—a half century before my laptop was built) and look up flags and syntax I inevitably constantly forget. We should have been past this at least 15 years ago.*
What does the oldness (and long usefulness) of grep have to do with the problem you described, which is the very hard problem of translating natural human speech into machine commands?
What does the oldness (and long usefulness) of grep have to do with the problem you described, which is the very hard problem of translating natural human speech into machine commands?