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2 articles
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2026-08-27
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Agents
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Build Your Own Agent Loop — The Minimal Shape of Tool Calling
At the center of every AI agent is a single while loop. We build it from scratch without a framework — the shape of JSON function calls, what ReAct actually left behind, and the stopping conditions where nearly every incident originates.
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2026-08-06
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LLM Agents from Scratch — Designing the Tool-Use Loop
Think, reach for a tool, look at what came back, think again. Working only from the text of the ReAct paper (Yao et al., 2022): why adding language to the action space is the whole idea, what function calling really implements, and the failure modes the authors actually measured — runaway loops and hallucinated tool calls.