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
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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…”
Josh Albrecht Jun 25, 2024 ▶ 1:20:40 State of the Art: Training 70B LLMs on 10,000 H100 clusters
Nov 28, 2024 positive
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Schluntz: Computer use is primarily a low-friction way to implement tool use
“I think most broadly, not just for like new things that weren't possible before, but as a much lower friction way to implement tool use.”
Erik Schluntz Nov 28, 2024 ▶ 52:04 The new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Computer Use, and Building SOTA Agents — with Erik Schluntz, Anthropic
Jul 31, 2025
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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…”
Nathan Lambert Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 24:35 The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
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