★ Detecting spam and auto-replies with Jev and the Laravel AI SDK

Yesterday Taylor announced that Jev support landed in the 1.x branch of the Laravel AI SDK. We started using it that same day for spam detection in There There. Let's take a look at what Jev is and how you can use it. How Jev is different from an LLM Jev is made by TypeSafe. An LLM generates text: you ask it something, it writes an answer, and if you want structured data back you have to ask for it and hope. Jev doesn't generate anything. You give it some state and a question, and it gives you…