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Testing SubQ Snap on Two Jobs: Picking Tools and Grading Answers

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...

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Testing OpenAI's Decisions API Against Jev and JevK5-4B

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...

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Evaluating Jev as a Replacement for an LLM Answer Grader

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.

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Writing

The Before Column

How differences in starting accuracy made a training-data effect look convincing, and what retention and recovery revealed.

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Infrastructure

Thirty Minutes to Four

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.

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Evals

Same Answers, Different Score

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.

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