Cost breakdown: 100 LLM calls in 8.5 seconds for roughly a quarter of a cent

narphorium · x · 2026-09-19

Follow-up on the English-logic interpreter: since Jev doesn't generate text, the author uses Claude Haiku to translate the question into a logic query first. That query then took 100 Jev calls in 8.5 seconds, costing roughly a quarter of a cent.

This fills in the economics of the pipeline — LLM query translation plus many cheap model calls plus proof search in code — showing the externalized-reasoning approach is cost-viable.

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