{
  "id": 11276884,
  "title": "Building a Real Multi-Step AI Agent with Gemini Function Calling (Not Just a Chatbot)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/01/building-a-real-multi-step-ai-agent-with-gemini-function-calling-not",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-01T20:38:45.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/omuphade/building-a-real-multi-step-ai-agent-with-gemini-function-calling-not-just-a-chatbot-3nl6"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Most \"AI chat\" tutorials stop at single-shot request/response. You send a message, the model replies, done. That's a chatbot — useful, but limited. What makes something an agent instead is a loop: the model can call a tool, look at what it got back, and decide whether it needs another tool before it's ready to actually answer you. In this post I'll walk through how to build that loop using Google…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}