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Flat illustration of a friendly robot at a workbench choosing a tool from a pegboard while a person watches with a checklist

What are tools and agents? When the AI starts doing things

Lesson 8 of how the AI thinks: a model on its own can only write text. Tools let it ask your app to act, and agents decide their own next step. What that changes, including the risks.

Sam Ortega · 1h ago · 4 min