Jev is fast and cheap but is not very smart.

Played Tetris with Jev and found it fast and cheap but weak at reasoning, producing questionable moves.
The original post
Jev is fast and cheap but is not very smart. No reasoning, no thinking. I don’t have benchmark but there are many questionable decisions in this Tetris play 😂
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Numbers are a snapshot taken from X when the case was added to the library (schema v1, collected 2026-09-19); they will not match today.
Where this case fits
Filed under games & playable demos. 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 games & playable demos page.
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