Have you had a chance to try DeepSeek as a Orchestration/Manager for sub agents?

I have been using DeepSeek flash for a few projects and it is actually crazy capable, And I don't think I have spent $20 via api in a month yet.

Yeah it works great, maybe not quite as good as opus 5, but it's literally 20x-50x cheaper, and several times faster, an extra review/refinement loop per task brings the work up to opus level while still being much faster and cheaper overall. I have my own setup/tool (which I hope to open source soon) for planning/tasking/tracking which I found helpful to keep things on track an not forget/redo things - regardless of model - essentially tasks, dependencies/hierarchy, priorities, requirements, and task completion evidence tracked in the repo in structured plaintext/markdown files. DeepSeek was able to very easily understand and follow the workflow right off the bat.

Ok, thanks, I'm going to try to setup the pi harness and add on some needed extensions for my workflow. I'd appreaciate any advice in regards to any addons you would recommend if you have them.