You Don't Need Tool Calling

Originally published at Inferable Blog &#xA; OpenAI, Anthropic, and others have built specialized APIs for tool calling. We&rsquo;ve always thought that it&rsquo;s a weird abstraction to be provided by the LLM provider, given that things become much easier if you can treat the LLM as a text-in text-out function. &#xA; It&rsquo;s good that structured outputs are a thing, and function calling is…