A 421M encoder beat a 1.5B LLM at running my agent, inside a browser tab

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The only honest answer Laya can give is NONE. A step runs automatically only if Laya is sure. Laya alone, no gate 32% 0 9. 7 s Laya + Qwen2. 5-1. 5B on held steps 21% 107 of 158 steps 30. 8 s Qwen2. 5-1. 5B alone, every step 10% every step 35. 3 s 0. 65 (tuned on dev) 32% 90% The small encoder beat the generative model.

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