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Re:There is minimal downside to switching to open models by itwaswatson on Sunday June 21, 2026 @11:33PM (#48625339)
We have a provider with Deepseek V4 flash at our work. It can handle 95% of the "actually functional" workload at a tenth of the cost. I still pull up beefier ones sometimes, but that's after some consideration.

The moat is so flat, it only gives +1 food and +1 production. +1 gold with a road.

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Re:There is minimal downside to switching to open models by calgoo on Monday June 22, 2026 @04:54AM (#48627588)
Same, i feel that V4 Flash is great at task implementation, but im still looking at bigger models for design. Now, GLM 5.2 with high thinking is actually getting really close now. I have switched for all personal projects right now and am quite happy with the results. I think the magic is in the big context window (1m) + a lot of thinking gets us very close to at least Opus 4.6 level. Im currently running directly on z.ai with a lite coding plan, and have bought API credit on deekseek as well. I will be looking at EU based hosts next and then i might switch over some of the more critical flows.
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