Teknium Tests Jev Compression Scheme, Finds It Worse and Costlier
Teknium of NousResearch tested Tamara's Jev-based tool-call compression strategy and found it scored worse at higher cost, learning shortcuts that avoided compression entirely; he says Jev has valid use cases but this isn't one.
2026-09-20 ~ 2026-09-20 · 2 related posts
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