An LLM itself can't use wc. Coding agents like Claude Code or Cursor will call out to command line tools for this kind of problem when the LLM detects it.
Well, maybe not wc directly, but they have access to sandboxed Python environments. It must be trivial for an LLM to write the Python code that calculates this.
I don't understand why Gemini insists that it can count the lines itself, instead of falling back to its Python tool [1].
I don't understand why Gemini insists that it can count the lines itself, instead of falling back to its Python tool [1].
[1] https://github.com/elder-plinius/CL4R1T4S/blob/main/GOOGLE/G...