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I gave an agent a database tool and immediately regretted it

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The first agent I wired up to real tools had a read query and a write query, and nothing between the model and either of them. It worked beautifully in the demo. Then I thought about it for ten more minutes and realized I'd built a system where an English sentence — possibly typed by a customer, po…

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  1. 2026-09-28 20:51 · DEV Community — AI
    I gave an agent a database tool and immediately regretted it

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