Jev case: What is a decision model?

Explained Jev as a decision model answering yes/no and multiple-choice questions with confidence scores, cheaper than an LLM.
The original post
What is a decision model? Jev by @typesafeai answers yes/no and multiple-choice questions, with a confidence score. Much of software development are a sequence of decisions, and Jev is 10x cheaper and faster than an LLM. Let’s understand this through practical examples:
Engagement when collected
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Where this case fits
Filed under coding & developer tools, classification & data extraction. In the pattern Jev is built for, the model answers a bounded question per step — and ordinary code acts on the answer, because the answer is already a value rather than a paragraph. Other posts in the same family are on the coding & developer tools page.
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