The Case for Simpler AI Agents: Why Fewer Tools Perform Better
The best AI agents might be the ones with the fewest tools. Recent case studies show a consistent pattern: agents stripped down to basic primitives, bash, file access, a single execution tool, outperform their over-engineered predecessors. Higher success rates, fewer tokens, faster responses. Something is shifting in how we build agents. The instinct to over-engineer When teams […]
