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How AI Agents Use Tools to Work with APIs and Databases

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How AI Agents Use Tools to Work with APIs and Databases A language model on its own is a brilliant talker and a useless employee. It cannot check a live price, look up a customer record, or send an email — it can only produce text and hope you mistake fluency for action. Tool use is the thing that…

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  1. 2026-10-26 14:56 · DEV Community — AI
    How AI Agents Use Tools to Work with APIs and Databases

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