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Sep 23, 2026

Moving My Research Pipeline's Judgment Calls from an LLM to Jev, a Judgment-Only Model

My daily research agent spends most of its time deciding whether each source is relevant and whether it says anything new. I moved those closed judgments from Claude Opus to Jev, a model that writes no text, and the key was to pass the question being judged against every time. Here is the pipeline, the Pydantic AI types, three papers Jev placed on a four-step relevance ladder, and why writing stays with an LLM.

Sep 23, 202611 min read0 reactions0 comments
File tools and validate: the agent's feedback loop
Jun 25, 2026

File tools and validate: the agent's feedback loop

The agent gets a workspace, file tools (list, read, write, edit, delete), and a terraform_validate tool it can invoke at any point. It writes HCL, sees errors, edits, validates again. To ship the terraform CLI next to the runtime, the Lambda flips from a zip package to a container image. The deliverable is the workspace, not a Pydantic result. A caller-side retry covers the case where the agent claimed done but validate still fails.

Jun 25, 202620 min read0 reactions0 comments