Why Isn't the Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

Re:Why Isn't the Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Fl... by apitman on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:41PM (#50012734)

I might not be the best person to ask. I use Pi harness in tmux and just ask my current agent to spawn interactive pi instances in new tmux windows, create a sentinel file for each of them, and monitor the sentinel files for signals every 2 seconds.

Currently have auto compaction turned off. When the orchestrator's context is getting close to full, I have it write a handoff markdown file and point a fresh agent at it.

I do feel like I'm getting close to the point where I might be ready for something more sophisticated, especially wrt to subagents communicating with the orchestrator.

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Re:Why Isn't the Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Fl... by crossroadsguy on Thursday October 08, 2026 @10:15PM (#50015152)

That limitation is what stops me from using Pi for anything serious. I may have to configure it and then configure it and it will eventually become a codex, a claude code or so. I recently heard the maintainers added mcp to it (in stock, not via plugin), I wonder what stopped them from adding subagent function, and decent loop capacity to it.

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Re:Why Isn't the Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Fl... by mappu on Friday October 09, 2026 @02:37AM (#50016821)

> Currently have auto compaction turned off. When the orchestrator's context is getting close to full, I have it write a handoff markdown file and point a fresh agent at it.

In a good harness that should be how auto compaction works anyway

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Re:Why Isn't the Industry Freaking Out About DeepSeek 4.1 Fl... by apitman on Friday October 09, 2026 @11:27AM (#50021921)

Yes, and I'll probably trust it eventually. But currently I always want to know when compaction is happening, so I can correlate any drops in quality or weird behavior.

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