My fix for LLM tool use issues was deleting half my tools, not writing a bigger prompt
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I fixed a flaky agent last week by removing tools. Not by tuning the prompt. Not by adding more examples. Not by giving GPT-5.4 a longer lecture about how to behave. I deleted half the tool list, tightened the schemas, and the agent immediately got less stupid. That sounds obvious in hindsight, but…
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- 2026-10-18 06:10 · DEV Community — AI
My fix for LLM tool use issues was deleting half my tools, not writing a bigger prompt