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I was getting errors like:",[276,277,282],"pre",{"className":278,"code":279,"language":280,"meta":281,"style":281},"language-plaintext shiki shiki-themes material-theme-lighter material-theme material-theme-palenight","NoSuchToolError [AI_NoSuchToolError]: Model tried to call unavailable tool 'undefined'. Available tools: getWeatherInformation.\n","plaintext","",[271,283,284],{"__ignoreMap":281},[285,286,289],"span",{"class":287,"line":288},"line",1,[285,290,279],{},[223,292,293,294,297,298,303,304,307],{},"I tried different models, different configurations, and even adding unit tests, but the way Cloudflare injects its remote ",[271,295,296],{},"env.AI"," is really odd. During this time I saw this post by ",[242,299,302],{"href":300,"rel":301},"https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002F_pi0_\u002Fstatus\u002F1919336943680168375",[246],"Pooya Parsa"," which summed up my feelings perfectly. The injection of the ",[271,305,306],{},"env"," is a nightmare to write tests for. Go find an example on how—I'll wait.",[223,309,310,311,314],{},"The final blow was when I thought I had it working. It was giving me a response, I was getting random temperature values, supposedly from the tool. After checking the messages, it turned out that ",[271,312,313],{},"@cf\u002Fmeta\u002Fllama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct"," was hallucinating that it called a tool and just gave me a number...",[223,316,317],{},"I realized I was spending more time fighting the platform than building my product. That’s when it hit me: it’s okay to give up. Sometimes, the best move is to walk away.",[227,319,321],{"id":320},"the-switch-to-aws","The Switch to AWS",[223,323,324],{},"At work, I use AWS all day, every day. I know it like the back of my hand. But I also like to try new things. I thought Cloudflare would be a good change of pace. But after two weeks of wrestling with their AI tools, I decided to go back to what I know best: AWS.",[223,326,327],{},"So for now, the goal was to swap the AI chat to use Bedrock instead of the Cloudflare AI tools. I'll likely keep hosting the site on Cloudflare, but I needed a reliable AI backend. I wanted to use the same tools I was already familiar with, and AWS was calling my name.",[227,329,331],{"id":330},"what-i-learned","What I Learned",[333,334,335,342,345,348],"ul",{},[336,337,338,339,341],"li",{},"The issue wasn't really Cloudflare AI, but likely ",[271,340,247],{}," not supporting tools when Cloudflare was the provider. That would have been fine if I ever got an error message that made sense. But between fighting the Cloudflare Env remote environment, streaming responses, and not getting any errors that made sense, I was stuck.",[336,343,344],{},"Sometimes, persistence is overrated. 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