tool calling
3 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 27, 2024 by Harrison Chase · across every show →
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Sep 27, 2024 positive
Harrison Chase says OpenAI recommends adding a thought field to tool schemas
“I think open AI even recommended, like when you're doing tool calling, it's sometimes helpful to put like a thought field in the tool along with all the actual acquired arguments and then have that one first. So it fills out that first and then, and that's, th…”
Jul 14, 2025 bearish
Frontier LLMs remain unreliable at realistic multi-turn tool calling
“Our last leaderboard is saying that models are really great at tool calling. So it's like safe, but they actually not, right? They're making mistakes and this is going to recalibrate the expectation of the users that Be careful because they're still not perfec…”
Nov 22, 2025
Wagner: Reliable LLM tool calling in late 2023 unlocked functional agents
“And I would say like that tool calling, I think really only became reliable about a year ago, like last October, November, when the models that shipped were suddenly really good at calling tools. And I think that then changed everything, right? And you see tha…”