Nine months of agent work and almost all my problems were in the tool layer
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Not a structured post, just what I'd tell someone starting. The thing that took longest to accept is that inconsistent answers usually aren't a prompting problem. Ours came from tools returning paragraphs of text, which the model interpreted slightly differently on every run. Once I returned struct…
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- 2026-08-21 13:19 · r/PromptEngineering
Nine months of agent work and almost all my problems were in the tool layer