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		jasonthorsness 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tools: Code Is All You Need Tools are constraints and time/token savers. Code is expensive in terms of tokens and harder to constrain in environments that can’t be fully locked-down because network access for example is needed by the task. You need code AND tools.

blahgeek 8 months ago [–]

> Code is expensive in terms of tokens and harder to constrain in environments

It's also true for human. But then we invented functions / libraries / modules

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