# Decision Models (MoC)
## Overview
[[Decision Models (DMs)|Decision models]] return a decision (a choice, a yes/no probability, a score) instead of text. [[TypeSafe AI]] turned the idea into a product with [[Jev]] in September 2026 and calls it a [[System One Models|System One model]]. I went deep on it because it's a new building block between code and LLMs: bounded judgment that's cheap enough to call thousands of times, with probabilities you can actually put a threshold on.
If you only read three notes, read [[Decision Models (DMs)]], [[Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (RLCD)]] and [[Confidence-Gated Routing]].
## The models
- [[Decision Models (DMs)]]: the category
- [[System One Models]]: TypeSafe's name for it
- [[Jev]]: the first commercial one
- [[TypeSafe AI]] and its co-founder [[Diogo Almeida]]
- [[Machine Native Intelligence]]: the "prod, not God" thesis behind it
- [[Jevons Paradox]]: where the name comes from, and the economic bet
- [[System 1 and System 2 Thinking]]: where "System One" comes from
## How they're trained
- [[AI Post-Training]]: the three branches (RLHF, RLVR, RLCD)
- [[Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback (RLHF)]] and [[InstructGPT]]
- [[Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR)]]
- [[Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (RLCD)]]
- [[AI Model Calibration]]
- [[Proper Scoring Rules]]
- [[Mode Collapse]] and [[Typicality Bias]]
- [[AI Sycophancy]], [[Reward Hacking]] and [[AI Hallucination]]: what preference training does wrong
## Building with them
- [[System One Primitives]]: Choice, Score, Noul, state and confidence
- [[Atomic Question Decomposition]]: code in control, one judgment per question
- [[Relative vs Absolute AI Judgments]]: "which one" vs "does any fit"
- [[Speculative Fan-Out]]
- [[Confidence-Gated Routing]]
- [[Composite Scoring]]
- [[AI Model Cascades]] and [[Model routing]]
- [[Candidate-Then-Select Extraction]]
- [[Reranking]]
- [[Hierarchical Classification]]
- [[LLM-Generated Features for Classical ML]]
- [[AI Guardrails]]
## Trusting them
- [[Shadow Evaluation]]: test on your own traffic before switching
- [[Conformal Prediction]]: coverage guarantees that don't depend on the vendor's calibration
- [[Self-Consistency]]
- [[Zero-Shot Classification]]: the "this isn't new" lineage
- [[AI Context Rot]] and [[AI KV Cache]]: why Jev isolates questions over a shared state
- [[Jagged Intelligence]]
## Open alternatives and tools
- [[Laya]]
- [[Kev]]
- [[SemIf]]
- [[Jevlike]]
- [[fast-jev-compaction]]
## Notes
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- [[AI Guardrails]]
- [[AI Model Cascades]]
- [[AI Post-Training]]
- [[Composite Scoring]]
- [[Confidence-Gated Routing]]
- [[Conformal Prediction]]
- [[Hierarchical Classification]]
- [[Jev]]
- [[Loop Engineering]]
- [[Machine Native Intelligence]]
- [[Mode Collapse]]
- [[Model routing]]
- [[Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions (RLCD)]]
- [[Self-Consistency]]
- [[Shadow Evaluation]]
- [[System 1 and System 2 Thinking]]
- [[System One Models]]
- [[System One Primitives]]
- [[Zero-Shot Classification]]
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## Related
- [[AI (MoC)]]
- [[AI Design Patterns (MoC)]]
- [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]]