My favorite bot is touch. You tell it what files you want created and it makes them for you.

On the surface this initially sounded like snark, but the more I think about it the more appropriate the comparison (in the "decomposing a command line UX down to a conversation analogy" sense, less the other way). I hadn't thought of a command line that way even though it's glaringly obvious. Interesting thought.

We do quite literally talk to computers for a living. Well, shit.

They are discovering interoperability through simple data interchange format.

I think you misunderstood and that you are not alone in that.

The author specifically points out how it is not about text only or commands or anything.