Re:Inkling 2 Small
by lifeisloving on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:10PM
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If you cant beat Deepseek on price im not using it. I actually dont care about beating DS in capabilities, I dont think you need more intelligence than Deepseek for 99% of the things people work on, and I dont want LLMs to do everything, that kind of defeats the point. I just need a smart fuzzer and to offload some tedious busy work.
So why should I pay for 3-20x more for a few small percentage points in preformance. (I would prefer DS did some things better, but largely I can force my desired behavior), but I could only have access to Deepseek 4.1 and still beat almost everyone using opus/fable/astra on a productivity basis, I need automation tools not "do my entire job so Im worthless tools", and DS has already more than gotten there for me.
Re:Inkling 2 Small
by deno on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:39PM
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There’s still room to beat Deepseek in communicating clearly and following instructions to the letter (it’s very over-eager imo). I can put it in subagent but for main model, as far as open models go, there’s still no atlernative to GLM-5.3 Flash.
So why should I pay for 3-20x more for a few small percentage points in preformance. (I would prefer DS did some things better, but largely I can force my desired behavior), but I could only have access to Deepseek 4.1 and still beat almost everyone using opus/fable/astra on a productivity basis, I need automation tools not "do my entire job so Im worthless tools", and DS has already more than gotten there for me.