Laya shipped eight releases and nothing moved for routing. Its author also shipped VegaML, a decision model that answers by letting a particle settle in a valley. Zero-shot it isn’t ready for my router, but it can learn from 40 labels in a minute, which none of the other models can do.
Three days after Cloudflare’s announcement, Clef-flash went through the same 80-prompt benchmark as Jev, Laya, Von and Kev. 90% topic accuracy, a confidence temperature that brings it level with Jev on calibration, and one problem no temperature can fix on a laptop.
Laya says “fine-tune me”, so I did, on a 16 GB MacBook. Here is the recipe, how long it takes, what it changes on the 80-prompt benchmark, and why my house still runs on Jev.
