Building Agents for Small Language Models: A Deep Dive into Lightweight AI

Why This Caught My Eye Most agent writing assumes you are running a frontier model. This post takes small models seriously and asks what agent architecture actually looks like when your model can barely do tool use reliably. I care about this because I’m exploring smaller local models, and posts about others doing the same have sparked my interest.

March 21, 2026 · 1 min · Jamal Hansen