Function Calling with Ollama: Make Your Local LLM Run Real Tools

Function Calling with Ollama: Make Your Local LLM Run Real Tools Most Ollama tutorials end at chat completion. The interesting stuff starts when the model can call your code. Function calling is the protocol that lets an LLM say "I want to call getWeather(city: 'Bogotá') " instead of trying to fake the answer from training data. Cloud models like GPT and Claude have had it for over a year. Ollama supports it natively for compatible models. Almost nobody talks about it. This post walks through a