Our own agents with their own tools.

Entering 2025, I decided to spend some time exploring the topic of agents.I started reading Anthropic’s Building effective agents,followed by Chip Huyen’s AI Engineering.I kicked off a major workstream at work on using agents, and I also decided to do a personal experiment of sorts.This is a general commentary on building that project.

What I wanted to build was a simple chat interface where I could write prompts, select models,and have the model use tools as appropriate.My side goal was t...