The short version
Jev gives up string generation, which is the source of both its strengths and its limits. Anything whose value is the words themselves — a caption, a script, an explanation, a piece of code — is out of scope.
If a human needs to read the answer, you need a text model. If code needs to act on the answer, a decision model is the better interface.
Why this matters
New model categories attract over-application. Teams rewrite working generation pipelines around a decision model and end up with a system that is faster at giving answers nobody asked for.
Being explicit about the boundary is how you get the benefit. Use each class where it belongs and the combination is stronger than either alone.
Keep these on an LLM
These jobs are language-shaped and stay with text models.
- Chat, copilots and anything conversational
- Long-form writing, scripts, briefs, strategy documents
- Code generation and refactoring
- Open-ended research and synthesis with no bounded answer set
- Anything that must explain itself in words for audit or debugging
Where the limitations bite
Two limits matter beyond the obvious ones. First, interpretability: a decision model returns a value and a probability, not a rationale, which is a real constraint in regulated workflows that require a written justification.
Second, schema cost. You must know the space of valid answers up front, and someone has to design and maintain that schema. If your categories change weekly, the maintenance moves from a prompt to a contract — which is usually better, but it is still work.
The hybrid that works
Generate with a text model, decide with a decision model, escalate on low confidence. That one sentence covers most production systems people are building in 2026.
If you are still choosing, read Jev vs LLMs for the comparison and what a System One model is for the category.
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