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A customer wants Jev to 'control' their support agent: pick the tool, decide when it is done, escalate when stuck. What do you build?

The pitch is a model that runs the loop. The design that survives production is a loop that code runs, with the model answering three narrow questions inside it: which tool, is this done, does this need a stronger model.

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The pitch is a model that runs the loop. The design that survives production is a loop that code runs, with the model answering three narrow questions inside it: which tool, is this done, does this need a stronger model.

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