10 places to swap an LLM call for Jev in an agent loop
The list covers 10 spots where a fast Jev judgment can replace an LLM generation, including difficulty routing, gating destructive actions, progress checks, and PII screening.
10 spots to swap an LLM call for Jev inside an agent loop Route by difficulty before picking a model — cheap model for easy asks, frontier only when it's warranted. Gate anything destructive — shell commands, payments, deletes — with a typed allow/block/escalate call instead of trusting the agent's own read of its own action. Classify the request once at the start so the right prompt and toolset load immediately, rather than burning tokens on the model figuring out what it's even being asked. Check progress at every step and cut the loop the moment it stops going anywhere — this alone fixes most of the runaway-agent problem. Rank retrieved chunks against the query directly, and only bring the LLM in once for the actual writing. Screen for PII, jailbreaks, and unsafe intent as a fast typed judgment with a confidence number, skipping the essay-length refusal. After a tool call, get a pass/fail read on whether it actually moved things forward, without another full generation. Sort incoming tickets by queue, priority, and owner — repetitive, high-volume, no creativity needed. Pick the next UI action from a screenshot or accessibility tree — tap, type, or stop — fast enough to keep pace with the interface itself. Send it to a human only when confidence drops or the stakes are high; let everything else keep moving on its own Put together, this is less about replacing the LLM and more about not calling it for things that were never a writing or reasoning problem in the first place.