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What If Your AI Agent Doesn't Need Better Prompts — Just Better Tools?

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I rewrote the system prompt fourteen times. Version 3 was "be thorough." Version 7 was a 900-word manifesto about edge cases. Version 12 threatened the model if it hallucinated a file path. Version 14 still booked a meeting on the wrong calendar and cheerfully summarized the disaster. The agent was…

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  1. 2026-08-31 11:10 · DEV Community — AI
    What If Your AI Agent Doesn't Need Better Prompts — Just Better Tools?

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