Agents That Actually Work: The Rise of Tool-Use Models

The agent hype cycle is cooling into something useful: models natively trained to call tools, verify results and retry.

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Agents That Actually Work: The Rise of Tool-Use Models

From prompting to tool-use training

The first wave of "agents" was just chains of prompts glued together with brittle scaffolding. The second wave trains tool-calling directly into the model, with rejection sampling on real API traces.

The result: fewer hallucinations, better recovery from errors, and workflows that survive a failed HTTP call without a human babysitting them.

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