Vibe Coding
Pattern: the cheap-model tier is being repositioned from "small chat model" to "typed decision function"
Jev's pitch is explicitly not a smaller chat model but a component that returns a type rather than a string, priced at $0.042/M input with free output so it can sit inside a loop. The same shape shows up in this week's r/LocalLLaMA traffic: Cactus Needle 3 is an 8-29MB sliceable automation foundation model you hand a function set to, and Ternary Bonsai 2 (27B, under 6GB, WebGPU-runnable) exists to put a capable model inside the app rather than behind an API. For a builder running heterogeneous routing, the practical read is that the Haiku-tier slot in your router is becoming a schema-constrained call you can verify, not a prompt you have to re-parse.
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