I disagree. It provides an easy way to let the LLM to use tools, and it has built in tools. Btw, OpenAI's function calling got the idea from LangChain. I did not see this kind of sentiment before the function calling made public. Now everyone think it's garbage ...
1) US has by far the biggest spy network in the world;
2) it is practically fake news as shown in many recent court cases that tried to criminalize these Chinese "spies", but in the end found out to be not the case.