It's not even fair to call "run code" to be indirect compared to what a human would do. The word raspberry has no Rs in it in human language either. We have a written representation of it, which we can then write down either in our head or on paper, and then we can "run the algorithm" of counting each of the letters.
Nothing intrinsically more or less direct about the LLM's method than ours.
Nothing intrinsically more or less direct about the LLM's method than ours.