Heading down the links of this blog ends up at https://github.com/gfrmin/credence, which claims to be an agentic harness that keeps track of usefulness of tools separately and beats LangChain at a benchmark.

LangChain… Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long, long time..

Anyway, that’s a cool idea. But also his blog posts include phrases like “That’s not intelligence, it’s just <x> with vibes.” Urg. Slop of the worst sort.

But, like I said, I like the idea of keeping a running tally of what tool uses are useful in which circumstances, and consulting the oracle for recommended uses. I feel slightly icky digging into the code though; there’s a type of (usually brilliant) engineer that assumes when they see success that it’s a) wrong, and b) because everybody’s stupid, and sadly, some of that tone comes through the claude sonnet 4.0 writing used to put this blog together.