I tried to make my AI agents lazier with a 270M model. It backfired on the smartest one.
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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady What I Built My AI agent kept calling tools it didn't need. I gave gpt-oss-120b 161 tasks it can reliably answer on its own, no tools. It still reached for a tool on 69 of them. A small 4B model running loca…
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I tried to make my AI agents lazier with a 270M model. It backfired on the smartest one.