Vahid Faraji·6d agoFrom APIs and Function Calling to MCP: How I Discovered a New Standard in AIWill MCP replace APIs? What is the difference between an MCP Server, an MCP Client, and Function Calling — and when should we use each?
Kiran Hayat Data Scientist·Nov 3How Do AI Agents Use Functions and APIs? Understanding Function Calling vs API CallingImagine you ask an AI agent:
Shaheryar Yousaf·Oct 31Tool Calling Explained: How an AI Model Requests Actions Your App ControlsA weather-assistant walkthrough of the request, validate, run and answer loop
InArtificial Intelligence in Plain EnglishbyIshank choudhary·Oct 28NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B: Running an Offline Voice Agent With Tool Calling on a CPUI gave NVIDIA’s new small model five tools, 60 prompts and no GPU. It picked the right tool every time, and a full spoken turn took about…
Pranav Agrawal·Oct 23The ReAct Pattern Explained: How AI Agents Reason Before They ActIn Part 3, function calling gave an agent the power to act. But being able to act is not the same as knowing what to do. ReAct closes that…
Pranav Agrawal·Oct 22Function Calling Explained: How a Language Model Operates External ToolsA language model can only produce text. This article explains how that text becomes a reliable, structured instruction that your code can…
Naveen Pandey·Oct 18Agentic AI Design Patterns — Part 1: Tool-Using AI Agents: How LLMs Interact with External Tools…Part 1 of a series on agentic patterns.
thatqagirl·Oct 8What Is Function Calling? How LLMs Learn to Use ToolsAn LLM can explain an API.A response icon1A response icon1
InAI Engineering CompassbyDipak Ahirav·Sep 19How LLMs Start Doing More Than Generating Text : Function Calling and AI Tools ExplainedAn LLM can understand that a user wants to check an order, search a database, send an email, or create a ticket. But understanding an…
Rajesh Kumar Sahoo·Aug 30Introduction To MCP: Connecting LLMs to the Real World“What if your LLM could connect, communicate, and act on the real world? Meet MCP — the connector between intelligence and action.”
