StudioSystem One vs System Two: the industry circles back to specialized models
Original title: System One model vs System Two: the industry just went full circle back to specialized models
Analyzing an internal BotsCrew engineer's Slack thread, the author argues the industry is moving from "throw an LLM at it" toward specialized System One models. Decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Cloudflare's Clef, OpenAI's Decisions API) return a pick with probabilities; OpenAI says the Decisions API is about 10x faster than normal mode (around 100 ms in their demo), at $0.10 per 1M input tokens with free output. Extraction models (Cloudflare Clairic, in preview) fill a defined schema and return null when a value is missing. Cloudflare's insurance-claim demo, splitting Clairic extraction, Clef decision, and LLM reply, took 19.3s versus 61.7s LLM-only. The author cautions the numbers come mostly from vendors, Clairic's outputs are guaranteed well-formed rather than correct, and suggests mar…
The author explains where these two kinds of System One models fit, their pricing and speed, and offers a practical method for auditing existing pipelines for replacement candidates.
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