Re:DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731
by apatheticonion on Saturday August 08, 2026 @03:34AM
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I've been using DeepSeek exclusively since I've been playing with LLMs, largely due to the price.
I joined a company that is an Anthropic shop and I am genuinely shocked.
Sonnet 5 is a little better on long horizon tasks and headless unsupervised agent workflows - but for in-IDE workflows, it's virtually unusable.
I am so used to flipping around my codebase at warp speed with DeepSeek flash. It's so fast and accurate I don't have time for parallel agents. It's a really rewarding workflow.
Moving to Sonnet, you ask is something simple like "split this into a seperate file" "implement this method" "this is my schema, implement a repository for it". It'll spend 30 minutes thinking and charge like $12. And no token caching, what are you even doing Anthropic?
I joined a company that is an Anthropic shop and I am genuinely shocked.
Sonnet 5 is a little better on long horizon tasks and headless unsupervised agent workflows - but for in-IDE workflows, it's virtually unusable.
I am so used to flipping around my codebase at warp speed with DeepSeek flash. It's so fast and accurate I don't have time for parallel agents. It's a really rewarding workflow.
Moving to Sonnet, you ask is something simple like "split this into a seperate file" "implement this method" "this is my schema, implement a repository for it". It'll spend 30 minutes thinking and charge like $12. And no token caching, what are you even doing Anthropic?
It's unusable.
DeepSeek are in a league of their own