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May the Source Be With You: Why Your AI Agent Is Only as Good as Its Knowledge

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Everyone seems to be building AI agents. Give a model some instructions, connect a few tools, add a system prompt, and suddenly we have an "agent." Except there's a problem. A lot of them aren't particularly useful. When an agent produces a poor answer, the immediate assumption is often that the mo…

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  1. 2026-08-22 19:48 · DEV Community — AI
    May the Source Be With You: Why Your AI Agent Is Only as Good as Its Knowledge

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