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Aniefiok Akpan

What I got wrong about tool calling — and why designing tools like an API fixed most of it

I assumed the model would use the tools sensibly. It did not. What changed once I started designing tools the way I design an API: narrower inputs, typed arguments, and error messages written for the model rather than for me.

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I assumed the model would use the tools sensibly. It did not. What changed once I started designing tools the way I design an API: narrower inputs, typed arguments, and error messages written for the model rather than for me.

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  • Agents
  • LLMs
  • AI architecture
  • API design
  • Python

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