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Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 by rain_iwakura on Friday August 07, 2026 @03:58PM (#49215499)
not at all true. if you're truly using it across the board for smaller things (translation of pages, filtering of every individual tweet based on its relevance to you etc), the costs ramp up super quickly.

i used for work where i did less and it quickly reaches thousands if you're not careful. i can already see what some will say: skill issue et cetera - whatever.

Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 by whimblepop on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:08PM (#49215595)
I thought it went without saying that GPT 5.6 Sol is the wrong model to use for things like filtering tweets. Apparently not?
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 by nicoburns on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:15PM (#49216320)
If you factor in cost then it may well be, but it's definitely the case that the high-end models can get you significantly better results than the cheaper models even for tasks that feel like they should be straightforward.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 by Drupon on Saturday August 08, 2026 @02:11AM (#49219296)
You would think that no one would be stupid enough to use Fable or Sol for small one-off tasks like filtering tweets, but AI has opened up a lot of avenues for stupid people to ship code. It's only going to get worse.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 by rain_iwakura on Sunday August 09, 2026 @05:43PM (#49236334)
yeah man it's me who's stupid and not you when i use an example of the author who claims that you can use pro subscription on all of the mundane tasks w/o going over the budget. sure. my point is that you can only use it with cheaper models. also some tweets are fairly dense in their compression/context, so yeah sometimes it's necessary.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 by paxys on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:33PM (#49215878)
$100-200/mo is the subscription price. You aren’t going to go over. And you can select smaller models as well. Not everything has to be done by the most expensive one.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 by janalsncm on Friday August 07, 2026 @06:00PM (#49216732)
You just get throttled, which interrupts your whole workflow.
Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 by kgwgk on Saturday August 08, 2026 @05:00PM (#49225877)
>> you can get effectively unlimited usage of GPT 5.6 Sol (Pro plan). Why use a much weaker model for the same price?

> Not everything has to be done by the most expensive one.

Ok then.