Anthropic just made code-based tool orchestration the default path. Hugging Face saw it arriving in December 2024.
Here’s a pattern you’ll notice if you look closely at the AI industry: the open source community discovers something, quietly releases it, and then a big lab ships it eight weeks later with a press release.
The article discusses the move from JSON tool calling to code-based orchestration in AI, highlighting Anthropic’s implementation of programmatic tool calling, which allows models to run tools using Python code directly. This new approach addresses the inefficiencies of traditional JSON tool calls by reducing token usage and improving the model’s ability to compose and handle tool interactions smoothly.
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