🧵 3/3 If you've wondered how agents go from "hello world" to production-grade tool use, this is for you. More info at cloudsummit.eu/en/session?g... 📍Room V, 06/05/2026, 15:20 PM See you there! 😎
The hallucination problem would be a stronger argument if LLMs weren't already capable of doing lots of useful tasks despite it. Tool use means agents aren't relying on training data alone.
LLM applications are noisy by default. Non-determinism, open-ended inputs, and multi-step tool use create a flood of traces that all look “fine” — until something breaks. The difference between noise and signal is an…
Tool use by non-humans is a phenomenon in which a non-human animal uses any kind of tool in order to achieve a goal such as acquiring food and water, grooming, combat, defence, communication, recreation, or construction.
Originally thought to be a skill possessed only by humans, some tool use requires a sophisticated level of cognition.
The ability of an LLM to call external functions (search, code execution, databases) mid-conversation. The building block of agentic systems.
"The agent's tool use includes shell, file edit, and a web browser."
“🧵 3/3 If you've wondered how agents go from "hello world" to production-grade tool use, this is for you. More info at cloudsummit.eu/en/session?g... 📍Room V, 06/05/2026, 15:20 PM See you there! 😎”
“The hallucination problem would be a stronger argument if LLMs weren't already capable of doing lots of useful tasks despite it. Tool use means agents aren't relying on training data alone.”
“LLM applications are noisy by default. Non-determinism, open-ended inputs, and multi-step tool use create a flood of traces that all look “fine” — until something breaks. The difference between noise and signal is annotation.”
“Tool use by non-humans is a phenomenon in which a non-human animal uses any kind of tool in order to achieve a goal such as acquiring food and water, grooming, combat, defence, communication, recreation, or construction.”
“Originally thought to be a skill possessed only by humans, some tool use requires a sophisticated level of cognition.”
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The vocabulary of software engineers, AI researchers, and anyone living in a terminal or on GitHub — from LLM to MCP, CORS to vibe coding, agentic to enshittification.
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