SubQ Snap, a hosted decision model, got every tool choice right on a 250-case tool-selection test and cost a fraction of a cent. On the same 100 hand-graded answers we use for every grader, it agreed with the human labels...
We ran OpenAI's new Decisions API through the same 100 hand-graded answers we used to test Jev and its open-source clones. It agreed with the human labels 83% of the time, against 90% Jev and 89% for JevK5-4B. Median response...
We compared six open decision models against a Jev run on 100 hand-graded answers. JevK5-4B agreed with the human labels 89% of the time against Jev's 90%, with a median response time of about 162 ms on a Mac. It...
How we put a cheap first-pass grader in front of Claude Opus, cut answer-grading cost per eval from about $43.60 to about $11, and checked that the verdicts still agree with Opus about 99 times in 100.
Notes from testing TypeSafe's Jev as a replacement for a Claude-based answer grader. It matched Claude without source text, did worse with it, and its confidence score turned out to be the useful part.
Our GPU training image took thirty minutes to build on every merge, docs-only merges included. Claude Code traced 24 of those minutes to one chown and one missing cache flag. Code-only builds now finish in about four.
Upgrading our eval grader model moved recall 6.4 points on identical responses. Claude Sonnet/Opus 4.5 -> 5 led to significant gains without changing anything else, including the prompt.