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I have taught my coding agent to use some ad hoc tools to gather statistics from a directory containing experimental data and things like that
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Helped: Teaching agent to use ad hoc tools for specific physics data tasks.
Got in the way: Using skills to enforce safety rules or hard requirements.
… We need good sandboxing for this, and promises from a model prone to getting off the rails is not a good substitute. But I have taught my coding agent to use some ad hoc tools to gather statistics from a directory containing experimental data and things like that. Nobody is going to fine tune a LLM specifically for my field (condensed matter Physics) but using skills I still can make it useful work. …