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the tool calling part of an agent is a way smaller problem than the models we usually point at it

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every agent stack i've worked on sends tool calls through the same big model that does the reasoning, so you pay a full model and a round trip for what is often just "map this request onto one of 40 typed functions". i spent a few days seeing how far the opposite extreme goes: a 48M param model tha…

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  1. 2026-08-24 19:41 · r/AI_Agents
    the tool calling part of an agent is a way smaller problem than the models we usually point at it

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