Decision model application of the day

I've been thinking about API design in the AI era and about dividing responsibilities between a service and an AI agent calling into that service. I have no firm conclusions here yet, but am still here to report that LLM-friendly APIs enable all sorts of useful things that would be impractical to build into the services themselves. So, I am a trivia fan who: Runs Zippyflash, a spaced-repetition site, which exposes an API; Is a bit behind on his flashcards these days; Wanted to spice up a study session today. So, I had Claude sort my overdue questions into categories and spin up a quiz for me in the style of a beloved quiz show. It has me type in the answers and calls into a decision model to tell me if I'm right or wrong. I can override the model's judgments, but there's rarely a reason to. Even without tuning the prompt, the decision model has been nearly perfect in sorting my responses into correct, incorrect, and other cases.1 Here, for example, is Jev recognizing an unlisted,…

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