Agents Aren’t Magic: The Real Architecture Behind Tool-Calling AI Systems
An “agent” is a system pattern built from a language model plus state, tools, and a control loop. The engineering work, i.e., safety, orchestration, and observability, matters far more than prompt engineering alone. 1. Why Everyone Is Talking About Agents The move from chatbots to agents is a shift from passive text generation to active, tool-enabled systems that can take actions: call APIs, query databases, run code, or orchestrate other services. People imagine autonomous systems that ‘just do the […]