"Jev Beats LLMs" Hype Pushed Back: Text Models and Classifiers Aren't Comparable
yuntiandeng · x · 2026-09-18
StatsTrade calls out a feed flooded with "Jev better than LLMs" posts, arguing the comparison is category-confused: text vs. classification, chat vs. real-time, transformer vs. classifier. Their read: yuntiandeng's ProgramAsWeights showed small cheap models fit well-defined tasks, and typesafeai's Jev — apparently a DL network trained from scratch — is a productized "DeepMind revisited" take on that real need.
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