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The AI agent wasn't confused. It was drowning in 200 tools.

How I cut wrong answers and token usage by giving the model 5 tools instead of 200. The ticket, if you can call it that, was one sentence: Make the AI agent give fewer wrong answers. No spec. No acceptance criteria. Just an agent that kept picking the wrong action. I assumed the obvious first: it's…

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  1. 2026-11-10 10:53 · DEV Community — AI
    The AI agent wasn't confused. It was drowning in 200 tools.

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