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July 24, 2026·Everything we've written about engineering·No. 5

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Make Your Agent Listen: Tactics for Obedience

Seven tactics for getting LLM agents to call the right tools in the right order, learned building Pamba's video generation agent.

· Karol Zdebel

One of the primary frustrations I've had while developing agents is the lack of obedience from LLMs, particularly when it came to tool calling. I would expose many tools to the agent with what I thought were clear, technical descriptions, yet upon executing them it would frequently fail to do what I wanted. It turned out the cause wasn't an intelligence limitation: it was my failure to understand the way it holds attention.

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