tool use
3 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Jun 25, 2024 by Josh Albrecht · across every show →
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Jun 25, 2024 bullish
Albrecht: Code execution expands agent capabilities far beyond hard-coded tool calling
“Instead of worrying about like weird hard coded agents using tools, Like let's just make them able to actually write code robustly and make that code work and be able to debug that code, know if that code is safe to run, like get really good at the like code w…”
Nov 28, 2024 positive
Jul 31, 2025
Lambert: SFT cannot teach emergent tool use; models must learn via RL environments
“It's very easy to get the model to do tools if you prompt it to, but it's very hard to get the like RL model to learn that the tool is useful. And that's why it's to go through these things where it's like 80 failed tool uses and it still gets it or like it st…”