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alansaber
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aldanor
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Things are not always that simple, eg
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/
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winstonp
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The avg coding session has hundreds or thousands of tool calls. Even a 5% failure rate noticeably notches up token use and cost. See Gemini.
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alansaber
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Yes, but each tool call has a different failure %. The tool calls that make up the majority of volume like grep are going to have nowhere near a 5% failure. A custom user-defined skill having a 5% failure rate is probably fine.
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