I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works
it's always kind of interesting to think about alternative ways running programs "could" work
like you could imagine that the `execve` system call works something like
execve("/usr/bin/sudo", ["sudo", "echo", "blah"], environment=..., stdout="file.txt", )
and then the program is responsible for opening "file.txt", the same way it would be if you passed `file.txt` as a command line argument
of course that is not how things work but it doesn't feel like that outrageous of a mental model
