So I spent the evening experimenting with Jev, adding it to my working environments across several product surfaces I am developing. Here are the results from the first evening working on
Toolsby Lance Universe2026-09-19
So I spent the evening experimenting with Jev, adding it to my working environments across several product surfaces I am developing. Here are the results from the first evening working on auteurintelligence.com. Algernon × Jev: 48-hour integration report (Sep 18–19). All offline replays on our own labeled corpora;
Jev sits behind a provider-neutral evaluation layer (named profiles, local fallback, calibration keyed by
provider/model).
Wins
• Intent pick from a resolver shortlist: top-1 0.835 vs 0.67 baseline; wrong mutating actions 11% → 0%. ~0.5 s/call.
• Agent routing (Jev + semantic router): 0.831 vs 0.814 holdout; they agree ~93%, and on disagreements
Jev was right 14/15. ~0.7 s vs 5.6 s p50 for our embed+local-LLM path.
• Calibration diagnosis: same accuracy, ~18× faster with a single-choice question.
• Retrieval relevance: recall@10 0.807 vs 0.636 baseline (small set).
• Small-sample: niche scoring 0.967, research screening 0.833, manuscript checks 0.861; p50 ~0.5–0.6 s.
Weak spot
• Build-failure triage (full run, 627 real cases): 59.2% vs 64.3% for our local-model baseline, with 75% abstention.
p50 726 ms, p95 1.08 s. Staying in shadow.
Questions
Best practice to cut abstention on multi-option triage: split into atomic booleans, or a different question shape?
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Any guidance on calibrating confidence per question set? We only let answers decide above
per-surface calibrated thresholds.
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Is there a long-lived / streaming mode? Our one-shot sidecar costs ~0.5 s