I just spent half my day getting CUDA and LLAMA to work with my 5070TI.

I was able to use it in agent mode with Roo, I stopped after having it write out a plan, but I'll continue when I have more time.

Deepseek feels less likely to do a straight up rug pull since you can self host with enough money, but I'm still more excited about local solutions.

Usually I just need grunt work done. I'm not solving difficult problems.

Using a bunch of CLIs to work with DeepSeek V4, I've found that Langcli is the best fit for DeepSeek V4. For programming tasks, the cache hit rate is above 95%.

Not only can it seamlessly and dynamically switch between DeepSeek V4 Flash, V4 Pro, and other mainstream models within the same context, but it is also 100% compatible with Claude Code.

I'm wondering why DeepSeek didn't create an AI coding agent like Kimi Code.

This has become a problem for me. I like trying new things. But I also know that in about a week, there's going to be a better/cheaper setup. And a week after that. And ideally I'd like to get some coding done when I'm not tinkering with the tools.

So I think I'll stay with CC for now.

I wonder if openrouter will replicate that 120x caching, I suppose they will?

You don't need Deep Claude. Claude Code is working with any model that exposes an endpoint for an Anthropic compatible API.

I am using Claude Code with GLM 5.1, MiniMax M2.7, Kimi K2.6 and Xiaomi MiMo V2.5 Pro.

Honestly with the likes of Opencode / pi / hermes I don't really find the "Claude Code agent loop" part particularly interesting.

The edge Anthropic has on others lies on its models performance. CLI tooling (and obviously pricing) is definitely not better than others.

why not opencode with deepseek?