The Most Common Mistake People Make When Building AI Agents

Key Takeaways

people will put a lot of effort into creating these really beautiful detailed prompts and then the tools that they make to give the model are sort of these incredibly bare bones uh like you know no documentation fun like the parameters were named A and B and it's kind of like oh like an an engineer wouldn't be able to like work with this as if this was a function they had to use because there's no documentation like how can you expect Paul to use this as well so kind of it's like that lack of like putting yourself in the model shoes I think a lot of people when they start trying to use tool use and function calling. um they kind of forget that they have to prompt as well and they they think about the model just as this you know more classical programming system but it is still a model and you need to be prompt engineering in the descriptions of your tools themselves.