Moving 940,000 daily decisions from Astra to Jev cuts the monthly bill from $6,180 to $41
The author describes swapping his stack's decision layer to Jev, which only makes judgments rather than writing sentences, answers in about 70ms and bills nothing for output, while Astra keeps the work that needs actual text.
MARK ZUCKERBERG REPORTEDLY OFFERED AI RESEARCHERS $100 MILLION EACH. ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO TAUGHT CHATGPT TO TALK RAISED $40M INSTEAD AND BUILT A MODEL THAT REFUSES TO meta is buying talent like draft picks. openai is building stargate. anthropic ships a bigger opus every few months. everyone at the top is betting that the next model has to be larger, smarter and more expensive than the last one diogo almeida went the other way. he helped build chatgpt at openai, walked out, and his company typesafe shipped jev, a model that never writes a sentence. it only makes decisions, it answers in about 70 milliseconds, and it bills nothing for output because it produces none it became the fastest adopted launch vercel has ever had, and the reason is boring in the best possible way: -> most of what an ai agent does all day is decide, not write -> is this spam, does this ticket need a human, which model should take this task, is this refund legit -> every one of those calls was running on gpt-6 astra or opus 5.5 at full generation price -> jev takes them over for a rounding error and hands the actual writing back to the big models i moved the decision layer of my own stack over last month: -> 940,000 decisions a day pulled off astra -> that slice of the bill went from $6,180 a month to $41 -> astra still writes everything that genuinely needs words here is the part they will fight me on: the ai race isn't only about who builds the biggest brain. zuckerberg can keep writing $100M checks for genius, but most of the work was never genius work. it was yes or no, and that part just became almost free the full breakdown is in the article below. bookmark it before your competitor moves their decision layer first
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