An agent that calls five tools to do what a single SQL query could do is not intelligence — it is overhead. The most useful agentic systems I have shipped are 80% deterministic plumbing and 20% LLM, in that order.
An agent that calls five tools to do what a single SQL query could do is not intelligence — it is overhead. The most useful agentic systems I have shipped are 80% deterministic plumbing and 20% LLM, in that order.