I Have a Problem: Every New AI Model Release Makes Me Want to Bolt It Onto My House
I’ll admit it upfront: I have a mild, ongoing addiction to trying new AI tools the week they show up, and then finding some corner of my home automation where they might actually earn their keep. Most of them don’t survive contact with reality. This is the story of one that did, and what it cost to get there. The candidate: a decision model, not a chatbot A new model showed up on my usual model marketplace — not a chat model, a decision model. Instead of prompting it with text and parsing whatever prose comes back, you send it a state description plus a set of typed questions, and it hands back a typed answer with a probability attached. No prompt engineering, no hoping the JSON parses. Small context window, and — the number that actually got my attention — a few cents per million input tokens and effectively free output. ...