Why Enterprise Teams Fail with LLMs: A True Story

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Co-Founder/CEO Arcade.dev, Helping AI Agents Securely Connect to MCP, APIs and Data

True story: an Enterprise team spent 6 weeks, and a small fortune, building a Slack integration for their agent – and the agent still sends DMs to the wrong person 40% of the time. Why? They wrapped Slack's API directly. Now their LLM has to: - Call users.list endpoint - Paginate through responses - Find the right user ID - Track context across multiple calls - Finally send the message That's 5 opportunities for hallucination. 5x the tokens. 5x the latency. A proper tool? One function: send_dm(username, message). The conversion happens in deterministic code, not probabilistic guessing. This pattern repeats across every enterprise system. Salesforce "get deals"? That's 4 API calls collapsed into one tool. Google Calendar scheduling? 6 calls become one. Your agents are failing because you're making them work too hard. And you're paying premium prices for that failure. At Arcade.dev, we've solved this with 100+ pre-built tools that actually understand how LLMs think. But even if you build your own - stop making your agents navigate raw APIs. Time to rethink your architecture.

Sam Bhagwat

building mastra (YC W25), author "principles of building ai agents"

1mo

We need to make people list their tool taxonomy!

Tantely Nonja

Co-Founder & CEO @ Quartier AI | Fluxbuild

1mo

Are these pre-built toolkits still open source?

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Pratik Satija

Building @ Solstis | Prev: AI @ CMU, MechE @ VT

1mo

Wouldn’t it be easier if you choose certain tools the agent has access to before you unleash it to do the tasks it needs to?

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Aleksei Kirsanov

AI & Data Engineer | 10M-row Pipelines | LLM-SEO (+100 % traffic) | Ex-Founder → Open to Lead Roles

1mo

Amazing! What's step one for those teams using raw API calls in their lean agi infrastructures?

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Robert Hammond

Principal Product Manager at HPE | 0 to 1 Product Builder | GTM Storyteller | Enterprise Platform and Infrastructure | Cybersecurity | Storage | Data Protection | Skier | Rubrik | VMware | Dell EMC

1mo

I built a slack agent, it just responds with a link to the support site!

Ben Valentin

I implement AI solutions for CEO's & business owners

1mo

Solid. AI is like a junior employee. The clearer and simpler the task, the higher the chances of succeeding 🙌

George Jeffcock

🔧 Principal Solution Engineer @ Salesforce | Creator MuleSoft Forge | Low-Code Advocate

1mo

Bridging the Deterministic world to the Probablistic world = MCP discreet tools

John Shaw

Generative AI/ML Entrepreneur | Ex AWS

1mo

40% of the time it works everytime

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