Nathan Flurry's post on X, curated on eChai

hype-free explanation of jev:

jev does not replace gpt / claude

jev is just a *really* smart switch statement

like if 2016 ml classifiers got 2026 levels of intelligence

it's a new* type of tool that will make a lot of workloads insanely fast, cheap, and accurate

* = and by new, i mean rebranded

~~~

it needs a predefined set of options and it will tell you which one to take

it cannot:

- write code
- generate natural language
- reason step by step / show its work
- produce any output you didn't define in advance
- pick from more than ~255 options in one shot

but it can:

- classify, route, score, rank
- give confidence
- pick the right branch, tool, model, or sub-agent
- judge / verify / guardrail an llm's output
- label tons and tons of rows

~~~

i'd imagine a lot of workflows that look like:

llm proposes options → jev decides → code executes

and i see this fitting *really* well with code mode and mcp

~~~

implying this will lead to agi seems incredibly far fetched to me, but i don't want to discount the types of applications that this will make possible