Crazy launch! Copycats! Massive round! On the one-month anniversary of the launch of Jev, we unpack it all with
@CompleteSkeptic, CEO of
@typesafeai: what Jev is, how it fixes what's broken in AI, and why the fast-followers are missing the hard part.
00:00 “95% Einstein, 5% Mr. Bean”
1:09 Why intelligence per dollar matters
3:25 Why TypeSafe built in stealth for two years
5:50 “We could have had AGI last year”
6:48 Why the product carries the marketing
9:33 What is Jev? Machine-native AI, built for software
10:53 System One vs. System Two
12:26 From simple decisions to composable AI
15:21 Automating email: giant prompts vs. smart if-statements
20:03 Probabilities, thresholds, and developer control
23:43 Why Jev is faster and cheaper than chat models
25:39 “Classification is AI-complete”
27:16 RLHF: how OpenAI trained models to please humans
31:28 Sycophancy, refusals, and the hidden costs of RLHF
34:22 RLVR: why benchmark gains don’t mean reliable automation
37:51 RLCD: optimizing for machine-native intelligence
39:54 Why TypeSafe builds its training data in-house
41:49 The Bitterest Lesson: define the task before scaling
44:39 Building Jev from open-weight models
45:56 Is Jev just a classifier? Why that’s a compliment
48:35 “Build prod, not God”
50:11 Embedding AI in software, beyond coding assistants
53:05 Jev’s copycats: matching the interface vs. the intelligence
55:33 Why benchmarks mislead the users they should help
58:37 Open weights vs. APIs: how TypeSafe weighs the tradeoff
1:00:04 Jevons paradox: a new market for machine intelligence
1:02:50 Why Diogo is skeptical of recursive self-improvement
1:04:47 Can practical automation avert an AI winter?