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phanimaheshyesterday at 3:33 AM1 replyview on HN

This is a bigger problem than it looks like at first glance. For isecases where llm + tool calls make more sense compared to say llm assisted codegen, figuring out the tool arguments is nontrivial. Where it is relatively easy I think codegen is a better option wrt amortised running costs


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viksityesterday at 4:12 AM

this is a great point, ty.

in my mind the biggest difference is llms that are invoked during a workflow, and llms that are invoked when _creating_ code (codegen).

for the former, tools could be well defined till they are small in number, but at some point, the system needs to examine a library of tools, understand how to call it and integrate it, and at its peak, even create new tools to talk to systems not already present in that library (codegen).