Isn't Claude Code supposed to be like a person? What would the Unix equivalent of that be?

You can't define a product to be "like a person", there is more variance there than any rational product.

I'm purely arguing on technical basis, "person" may fall into either of those camps of philosophy.

File. In Unix everything is a file.

honestly if local LLMs become easier to implement in the future due to dedicated hardware, the Unix-like thing I'm working on might actually get this