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Factory's @luke_alvoeiro explains why AI coding agents are wasting massive amounts of…

Factory's @luke_alvoeiro explains why AI coding agents are wasting massive amounts of tokens on information they don't…

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Factory's @luke_alvoeiro explains why AI coding agents are wasting massive amounts of tokens on information they don't even need: "Programmatic tool calling unlocks the ability for the model to generate all these different commands that it wants to run, but then only specify which of those it actually cares to see the results for." "Let's say you're moving a hundred and fifty Linear tickets from one project to another. You really only care about whether that occurred successfully or not." "In a regular tool calling approach, the model would get all of those results sent back to it, and you'

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