The Hidden Cost of Using Weaker Models for Decisions: You Never Benchmark, So You Never Notice the Lost Alpha
generativist · x · 2026-09-23
The author criticizes common "sloptastic" uses of jev: some tasks genuinely require intelligence, and using a model not designed for decision-making in such domains is costly. The telltale pattern: instead of iterating with an intelligent model, you do one pass with the smart version and iterate with a dumb one — and because you never benchmark both, you never notice the missing alpha.
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