Nathaniel Whittemore
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These are judgments about meaning, and they're often difficult to express as fixed rules.
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JEV then is designed to take the relevant information and answer narrowly defined questions with probabilities, categories, or scores.
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The surrounding software then uses those answers to route, rank, flag, or proceed.
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In the TypeSafe documentation, they explicitly recommend breaking complex decisions into small questions and then combining their results in code.
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So where would this show up in normal business?
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One obvious area is customer support, where the small judgment the model could make would be something like, is the customer frustrated?
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And how have previous replies failed to address it?
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With those small judgments in hand, the software could then next route the ticket, raise its priority, or request human review.
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In the sales domain, the model could judge, is this a buying inquiry?
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Does the prospect fit the product?
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Are they requesting a meeting?
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The software could then take those judgments to sort inbound leads and assign follow-up.
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In marketing and editorial, the model might judge whether the copy meets specific style rules or whether the offer is clear.
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The software that surrounds it could then flag passages for revision before publication.
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And importantly, where a lot of people went was not just understanding where they would use this instead of LLMs, but how they might use it alongside LLMs.
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YC founder Nathan Flurry wrote,
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I'd imagine a lot of workflows that look like LLM proposes options, Jeb decides, code executes.
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To put a clear example on this, imagine that a customer writes, This is the third time I've contacted you, we still can't export our reports, and our renewal is next week.
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A support workflow supported by something like JEV could ask several questions together.
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One, is the customer describing a product problem?
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