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LLM Tool Calling Explained: A Simple Agent Loop in Python

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Ask a language model "Where is Maria's order?" and it has no way to know. It has never seen your orders. A model can only produce text. So how do AI assistants check a calendar, search the web or look up an order? The answer is called tool calling, or function calling, and it's simpler than it soun…

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  1. 2026-10-16 10:00 · DEV Community — AI
    LLM Tool Calling Explained: A Simple Agent Loop in Python

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