This is heading in the wrong direction. > The future of AI agents is one where models work seamlessly across hundreds or thousands of tools. Says who? I see it going the other way - less tools, better skills to apply those tools. To take it to an extreme, you could get by with ShellTool.
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#122It’s quite obvious that at some point the entire web will become a collection of billions of tools; Google will index them all, and Gemini will dynamically select them to perform actions in the world for you. Honestly, I expected this with Gemini 3
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#123A couple points from this I'm trying to understand: - Is the idea that MCP servers will provide tool use examples in their tool definitions? I'm assuming this is the case but it doesn't seem like this announcement is explicit about it, I assume because Anthropic wants to at least maintain the appearance of having the MCP steering committee have its independence from Anthropic. - If there is tool use examples and prog…
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#124This is heading in the wrong direction. > The future of AI agents is one where models work seamlessly across hundreds or thousands of tools. Says who? I see it going the other way - less tools, better skills to apply those tools. To take it to an extreme, you could get by with ShellTool.
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#125What are the current ways to minimize context usage when streaming with multiple tool calls? I can offload some stuff to tools themselves, i.e. they wrap some LLM doing heavy lifting like going through a 200k-token-long markdown and return only some structured distillation, however, even that can fill main model's context quickly in some scenarios.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meanwhile, I have "* Never use Python for anything ever* " in my AGENTS.md.
i think you are leaving lots of intelligence on the table by forbidding python to an LLM; trained heavily on python codebases.
This is in a node.js project. It is just too obsessed with using Python, and it seems to help it focus and make more sensible choices by removing the option.
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#128The Programmatic Tool Calling has been an obvious next step for a while. It is clear we are heading towards code as a language for LLMs so defining that language is very important. But I'm not convinced of tool search. Good context engineering leaves the tools you will need so adding a search if you are going to use all of them is just more overhead. What is needed is a more compact tool definition language like, I d…
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#130This is a problem coding agents already need to solve to work effectively with your code base and dependencies. So we don't have to keep solving problems introduced by odd tools like mcp.