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Articles tagged “function-calling

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A massive warehouse of filing cabinets stretching into fog, with one person sitting at a clean desk with three folders under warm lamplight
Agent Architecture·14 min read read

Your MCP server is a monolith. Here's how to fix it

MCP servers dump every tool into the context window, burning tokens before your agent reasons. Four patterns to fix it: decompose, filter, gateway, facade.

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Learning AI·20 min read

Function Calling: Build a Multi-Tool AI Agent from Scratch

Build a multi-tool AI agent from scratch using function calling across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Runnable TypeScript and Python code, validation with Zod and Pydantic, and production hardening patterns.

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Tools & MCP·7 min read

Why MCP Exists: Tool Calling Shouldn't Need Adapter Code

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all implement function calling differently. MCP is emerging as the standard that saves developers from writing adapter code for every provider.

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Illustration of a neural network with low-rank adapter matrices injected between layers, showing only a small percentage of parameters highlighted for training
Learning AI·19 min read

Fine-Tune a 7B Model for $1,500 (Not $50,000)

Full fine-tuning costs $50K in H100s. QLoRA on an RTX 4090 costs $1,500. Learn how LoRA and QLoRA let you train only 0.1-1% of parameters with nearly identical results, with working code for fine-tuning models that understand your agent's tool schemas.

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A network of connected nodes representing protocol communication between AI systems
Tools & MCP·11 min read

MCP Is Now the Industry Standard for AI Agent Integrations. Here's What That Means

MCP standardizes how AI agents connect to tools and data, replacing fragile, proprietary integrations with a universal protocol. Here's what it means for your agents.

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Tools & MCP·26 min read read

AI Agent Tools: MCP, OpenAPI, and Tool Management That Actually Scales

How production AI agents discover, execute, and manage tools — from MCP protocol to OpenAPI auto-importing, security sandboxing, and multi-tenant tool infrastructure.

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Learning AI·20 min read read

Build your own AI agent tool system — what breaks when you add the 20th tool?

Build a complete tool system for customer-facing AI agents from scratch — registry, execution, auth, monitoring. Then learn what breaks when real customers start calling.

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