Companies pay for claude, devs not. IF i had to use AI from my own purse, i would never pay for a claude sub.

> Chasing the latest and greatest is silly

Said every week by someone who would never go back to using the model they had 6 months ago

We use Claude Fable to plan, and DeepSeek 4.1 Flash (hosted on DeepInfra) for everything else. Very cost effective.

It’s obvious: they train on prompts and store data when using through their official API. And for third party it’s just… not good. That’s it.

I built mjolnir in large part so I could have Opus manage DeepSeek Flash subagents. It's phenomenal and extremely light on the Claude tokens. https://github.com/BrokkAi/mjolnir/

And yes, Opus is enough smarter than DSF that it's worth the extra steps. This ranking is from live tickets, no contamination: https://slopcop.com/power-ranking

Why isn't the author worried about sending her/his ideas to DeepSeek online (instead of hosting it and using it locally)?

> So why aren't the frontier labs freaking out right now?

They are. Isn’t this why they’re trying to get regulatory capture?

I was just using a bunch of models in Cursor to review a project. I went looking for DeepSeek and it was not one of the options.

Would be cool if they added it.

There was a moment 3 months back where the sentiment was that cheaper models were the way to go. Since then the pendulum has swung back.

My anecdotal experience is that I can’t even trust DS4Pro let alone Flash. I always have to have Sol reviewing the code.