From Raw Text to Agent Teams: How LLM Tooling Evolved

LLMs Don’t Actually “Call” Tools Here is a fact that surprises most people: LLMs cannot run code. They cannot call APIs. They cannot read files. All they do is predict the next token — they output raw text, one piece at a time. So how do they “use tools”? The trick: structured wishes During training, models are fine-tuned on augmented datasets that include tool call examples. The training pipeline works roughly like this: ...

March 3, 2026 · 16 min · Minh-Nhut Nguyen