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devmortoday at 3:33 PM2 repliesview on HN

If you’re using LLMs for agentic work it is absolutely essential that you have a robust set of tools for them to use and the correct instructions to prompt their use.

The LLM will come up with stupid ways to do things, common sense doesn’t exist for AI.


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jvuygbbkuurxtoday at 4:04 PM

Isn't this the whole reason they became viable in the last 6 months? The system prompt and harness is improving. It's less and less essential every day to roll your own.

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Salgattoday at 6:53 PM

My favorite is when Claude will build a completely new application to load and inspect a .dll file using reflection instead of just googling the library's interfaces.