contrary to what i feel is extreme negativity of the author, to me it seems Jev is one of the only novel releases that lived up to the hype and has staying power. Not only that it jump started a whole new "classifier" war, leading to now things like cloudflare's clairic for extraction.

really early to call it "the fall of jev"

The rise and fall of something that majority of people never heard of

Did Jev take off briefly and stopped getting talked about a few days later? Yes.

But that doesn't make it a failure. In the era where we have:

a) an AI hype cycle where the benchmark of "successful product" is ChatGPT, Claude Code, etc. b) a social media environment that only rewards the most-engaged content

It's easy to declare something "fell off" because it didn't immediately revolutionize how everyone does their daily work.

But by that measure, nearly everything is a failure, even if it creates great businesses. That's especially true for infrastructure that runs in the background.

> I really don’t want to bash Jev

Sure. And yet...

Doomerism + Wishful thinking. We are what ~3 years into mass adoption of llm tech? Every couple of months it improves. Jev came out a couple of months ago and there is nothing that makes me believe that it will not improve over time as people fine tune small models to work better over time.

Jev is still extremely useful for its intended purpose, not the mildly interesting hype on social media.