Behind the Craft · Sunday, July 12, 2026
Jared Zoneraich highlights that 'tool engineering' will become a crucial skill in developing AI agents. He posits that the focus should shift to identifying and providing the right tools for models, with the assumption that the models themselves will become adept at figuring out how to use them.
“Yeah, I almost think tool engineering is going to be the new thing. Just figuring out which tools to give the model and assume that the model's going to figure it out and be able to try things out.”
“And the prompting skill in that case, and the skills in that case are like a cheat sheet of what tools to use for what. But otherwise, the model will just try everything.”