Since Jev launched Tuesday, there’s apparently a new thing at
@every “Jev boys.”
Ever since the launch there’s been this flock of self-proclaimed “Jev boys” who carry Jev on hand at all times and constantly ask it what to do. They have their entire personality revolve around Jev, TypeSafe, and calibrated probabilities. When we went around talking about what people were trying this week, 4 or 5 of them said some variation of “I live by the Jev and die by the Jev.”
Just about an hour ago, I asked someone to do something and one of the Jev boys was bold enough to say “if Jev says I do it, otherwise I don’t.” I told him if he asked Jev instead of just doing the thing I was going to lose my mind.
He asked it anyway and it said to do it.
Thank god for that at least.
But then the other Jev boy asked the same question and Jev gave him a different answer.
He immediately pulled up the probability and started explaining that Jev was only 63% confident, so technically it was a judgment call.
I told him that yes. That is what being a person is.
Later, another Jev boy asked Jev whether he should go to a meeting. Jev said no.
He did not go to the meeting.
When someone asked where he was, he posted the Jev output in Slack.
At lunch, I watched two Jev boys ask Jev where they should eat. They got different answers and spent five minutes comparing confidence scores instead of picking somewhere.
One of them actually said “I’m going with Jev on this one.”
The other said “your Jev is wrong.”
I don’t even know what that means.
Now they’ve started asking Jev questions about each other.
Someone asked Jev if another person’s idea was good.
false
The person whose idea it was then asked Jev whether that was constructive feedback.
false
Neither of them has spoken since.
This afternoon one of the Jev boys told me he doesn’t make decisions anymore, he “routes them through Jev.”
I asked if he was joking.
He asked Jev.
It said false.
It has been three days since launch.
I really hope this dies off soon. I haven’t seen anything outside Every about “Jev boys,” so I’m guessing it’s just an Every thing.
Unless one of you has more information.