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New comment by locallylinear in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

locallylinear — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:52:57 +0000

The most glaring downside with practically using decision models is if you need the model to not only decide something but give a reason, for every case, you end up not saving money or time, but just adding an extra step.

Give me a decision model that can do both, more expensive than today’s decision models but still cheaper than full on frontier model, and it’d open up so many more use cases, IMO

New comment by locallylinear in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

locallylinear — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 10:46:58 +0000

> Calibration matters

I agree. What I’ve encountered though is even building enough cases for a calibration data set is hard. And so we farm out to smarter expensive models like Astra to label cases and use that as a calibration data set for the now cheaper LLM judge actually running as our judge

Is this standard ? Or am I just too lazy to manually label enough data to calibrate ?

New comment by locallylinear in "A thousand fewer paths to root"

locallylinear — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:15:18 +0000

The ROI on this is massive if the bounties would actually be accepted (they won’t, right?)

It begs the interesting question on the future of bug bounty programs: when it’s so easy to find and solve issues there’s less incentive to offer a bounty, which in turn leads to less incentive for humans/agents to find and fix security issues..?

As someone not plugged in on the current times with respect to bug bounty programs, curious for peoples take on this / is this already the reality ?

New comment by locallylinear in "Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise"

locallylinear — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 09:55:24 +0000

Very cool, great work and awesome story of how you all preserved to get to this point.

Are you thinking at all about security certifications to more easily be approved with, or sell subscriptions to, enterprise companies?

I’d love a pair but realistically I couldn’t use them with work unless it was an approved vendor; we use Wispr Flow though so I imagine being on a similar plane to them would suffice.