Deciding with Jev AI

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    Matt Van Horn's summary of his own article, which checked every big Jev post of the first 72 hours by hand and groups them into nine things. Several entries on this page were found through it.

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    TL;DR of my new article: WTF is Jev by @typesafeai, and the 9 things people are already building with it. The thesis: ๐—ฎ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ-๐—ฐ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—–๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜๐—š๐—ฃ๐—ง ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜๐˜„๐—ผ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜๐—ต ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฎ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ ๐—ท๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ด๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐˜€.

    Think AI multiple choice, not AI essay writing. It doesn't chat. You hand it app state plus a typed question, it hands back a decision with a probability attached. ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿญ.๐Ÿฐ๐—  ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜„๐˜€ on the launch post in two days (@CompleteSkeptic, who co-invented RLHF). I ran @slashlast30days on it 11 times, then checked every big post by hand.

    ๐ŸŒ ๐—” ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ป ๐˜€๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ณ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐Ÿณ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ $๐Ÿฌ.๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿต. New action space every step, DOM as state, Jev picks the click, a small LLM only wakes up to type. The Browser Use founder built it (@gregpr07, 7.2K likes, 1.8M views) and had to note the video is 1x speed

    ๐Ÿงน The sleeper: instant compaction. Score every tool call, drop the junk, skip the summarization prompt entirely. "๐˜ช๐˜ฏ 2026, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜บ ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ข ๐˜ด๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ต?" asked @tamarajtran, 5K likes, then shipped the answer that afternoon. Run as a Claude plugin it took a session ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐Ÿญ๐—  ๐˜๐—ผ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐Ÿด๐Ÿฒ๐—ž ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ (@altryne). Diogo's reply: "๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜จ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฏ๐˜ต๐˜ด ๐˜ง๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜จ๐˜ฏ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜’๐˜ ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ"

    ๐Ÿ›ก๏ธ Vercel put it in production as the safety reviewer in fx auto mode. ๐—จ๐—ฝ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿด๐˜… ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฝ๐Ÿต๐Ÿฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ than the model it replaced, per @rauchg, 3.7K likes. LangChain open-sourced the same idea the next day as AutoModeMiddleware. The closed danger classifier inside every coding harness is now a 100ms primitive

    ๐Ÿšฆ Model routing as middleware instead of a paragraph in a system prompt. About a dozen lines, probabilities left in agent state so you can audit the choice. The LangChain writeup by @sydneyrunkle is the cleanest how-to-wire-it piece anyone has published

    ๐Ÿ”Ž RAG precision, solved the dumb way: retrieve as usual, run Jev on every chunk, delete the irrelevant ones. "๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ป๐˜ฆ ๐˜ซ๐˜ฆ๐˜ท ๐˜ด๐˜ฐ๐˜ญ๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ๐˜ค๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ช๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ ๐˜™๐˜ˆ๐˜Ž?" (@kushbhuwalka, 416 likes)

    ๐ŸŽฎ Minecraft in real time: ๐—๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜€, ๐—š๐—ฃ๐—ง-๐Ÿฒ ๐—”๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ฎ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜€, and they fight multiple zombies at once (@wuyang_zhou). A launcher that reads intent on every keystroke in about 100ms (@dabit3). TypeSafe's own demo is Doom at 10 decisions a second, roughly $7 an hour

    ๐Ÿ“ฌ Email triage at scale: 1,500 emails in batches of 100 with 8 workers, 60,996 views on the demo. "๐˜ž๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ข๐˜ท๐˜ฆ ๐˜ข ๐˜ฃ๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ๐˜ค๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฐ๐˜ง $5 ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ฏ ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ธ๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ฉ ๐˜ซ๐˜ถ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ๐˜ด ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ค๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ข๐˜ฑ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ด ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ ๐˜ช๐˜ด"

    ๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿณ๐Ÿณ ๐—ท๐˜‚๐—ฑ๐—ด๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐Ÿฌ.๐Ÿณ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜. Every's head of evals asked 21 questions of 37 documents in one request, and that is what came back

    ๐Ÿงช Jev in your browser: Reflex, a Qwen model doing structured decisions on WebGPU, built at Shopify by @kshetrajna and passed around by @tobi. Three independent clones inside 72 hours. ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป, ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜๐˜€

    ๐Ÿ”Œ Already behind the gateways you use: @vercel AI Gateway inside 48 hours (2,341 likes, the company's second-biggest post), Cloudflare, and @OpenRouter in beta

    ๐Ÿ’ธ ๐Ÿฑ,๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—พ๐˜‚๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐˜€ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ $๐Ÿฎ. That was one developer counting his bill on day one (@MichaelLee04, 3,060 likes). Input is $0.042 per million tokens. Output is free

    ๐Ÿงจ The honest part: Every's second test came out ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฑ๐˜… ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ, ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ๐˜…, and Jev caught 6 of 7 planted defects to Fable 5.1's 7. The HN launch thread (1,863 points) spent most of its length on "can't hallucinate." Top critical comment: "๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ'๐˜ต ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ ๐˜ต๐˜บ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฆ, ๐˜ฃ๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ช๐˜ญ๐˜ญ ๐˜ฆ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ข ๐˜ค๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฑ๐˜ญ๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ฆ๐˜ญ๐˜บ ๐˜ธ๐˜ณ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ ๐˜ท๐˜ข๐˜ญ๐˜ถ๐˜ฆ." Diogo called the "it's a zero-shot classifier" read "๐˜ท๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ๐˜บ ๐˜ข๐˜ค๐˜ค๐˜ถ๐˜ณ๐˜ข๐˜ต๐˜ฆ!" And the biggest Reddit thread is someone who open-sourced the same architecture a year ago, 1,568 upvotes. Top reply: "๐˜‰๐˜ถ๐˜ต ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ฅ ๐˜บ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ ๐˜ฑ๐˜ฐ๐˜ด๐˜ต ๐˜ช๐˜ต ๐˜ด๐˜ข๐˜บ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ ๐˜ช๐˜ต'๐˜ด ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฏ๐˜ฆ๐˜น๐˜ต ๐˜ฃ๐˜ช๐˜จ ๐˜ต๐˜ฉ๐˜ช๐˜ฏ๐˜จ? ๐˜™๐˜ฐ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฌ๐˜ช๐˜ฆ ๐˜ฎ๐˜ช๐˜ด๐˜ต๐˜ข๐˜ฌ๐˜ฆ"

    Bonus: the name is not Kahneman. It's William Stanley Jevons, of Jevons paradox. Make a resource cheaper and people consume far more of it. Naming your decision model after that is a thesis statement.

    ๐—ž๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ด ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด. ๐—จ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐—ฑ-๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ป. That's the whole article.

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