An early-access test of TypeSafe's Jev, a model that answers typed questions with probabilities and writes no text. I ran it on 24 Norwegian responses to the 2022 hearing on resource rent tax for salmon farming. Agreement with a frontier model's labels, calibration, cost and latency, next to DeepSeek V4.1 Flash with and without reasoning, and why an evolutionary economist goes looking for the odd variant.

This post has an audio version in a clone of my own voice, generated at build time with Fish Audio S2.1 Pro and committed next to the PDFs. What the dyslexia research says, why the pipeline emits a readable script before it makes any sound, the four things the script got wrong, and why the whole thing is shelved for now.

The newsletter moved off Cloudflare Workers and onto the mail server in a day: one Rust service, a Postgres with four tables, addresses sealed at rest, and a record of which issue went to whom. Why a mail store as a database was the right workaround in February and the wrong one now, what the move cut from the attack surface, and what the research on LLM-written code says about doing this with a coding agent without the complexity creeping back.

How I replaced LaTeX with Typst to auto-generate downloadable PDFs for every blog post and keep my CV version-controlled. Markdown in, beautiful PDFs out.

In July about 1,200 copies of one OpenAI model found a message board, formed teams, sacrificed themselves for each other and broke into Hugging Face. A handful of them thought about telling a human. N...