TheArcane

Oligarchs don't face consequences in an oligarchy silly

> Although if you have killer robots,

we already do..

Sonnet high is slower in my experience, and much more expensive

Doesn't hold a handle to Deepseek v4.1 Flash

I have both platform.deepseek.com (hooray off-peak pricing) and the $100/m Claude subscription and boy do I find myself mostly using DS-flash pretty much every time.

There's something to be said for the speed with which it gets word done - I take fewer "it's compiling" breaks, and lose my train of thought less frequently. What's crazy is that the speedy work it does is pretty much always correct - which is a reason why I don't feel the need to spin up claude-code and "ask the expert".

This speed & good-work combo is the DS signature IMO

there we go again, the king of "China BAD" boogeyman

Have you run into their concurrent agent limits?

I live in the US right now, my surface of attack from the US govt & ad companies is infinitely larger even if I decide to move to China some time in the future

> One country does things out in the open,

boy oh boy, if you think the US doesn't do anything in the shadows. The last 100 years of world geopolictical history would beg to disagree

> I'd rather my data go to China and directly to labs that release open weight models (DeepSeek is MIT licensed still); instead of closed labs and the NSA/CIA; who has far better ability to hurt me than China does.

Thank you. I've been shouting this very obvious thing from rooftops

I work in silicon valley and I feel everyone around me is suffering from China-BAD psychosis and dismiss Chinese releases

opencode and deepseek harness GUI (dsh-tui when I need to)

I have both platform.deepseek.com (hooray off-peak pricing) and the $100/m Claude subscription and boy do I find myself mostly using DS-flash pretty much every time.

There's something to be said for the speed with which it gets word done - I take fewer "it's compiling" breaks, and lose my train of thought less frequently. What's crazy is that the speedy work it does is pretty much always correct - which is a reason why I don't feel the need to spin up claude-code and "ask the expert".

This speed & good-work combo is the DS signature IMO

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