Tiny decision model Jev classifies 1,000 papers for $0.08, letting frontier LLMs skip yes/no drudgery
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-10-06
A viral post introduces Jev, a tiny "decision model" that sits in front of expensive frontier LLMs ($20–200/month) and handles the boring forks: which agent goes next, whether an email is worth researching, reply or ignore, publish/wait/escalate, BUY/SELL/HOLD, click or keep looking. Reported numbers: 1,000 papers classified for $0.08, 500 emails sorted for $0.035, browser-agent loops in 7 seconds at $0.0039 each, and roughly 10,000 1K-token decisions for $0.42. The point isn't that Jev is smarter than Claude — it's an architecture split: cheap brains for binary decisions, expensive brains for actual intelligence.
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