Re:Anthropic IPO
by edg5000 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @09:05AM
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I genuinely wonder if we both had to switch to DeepSeek, we had infinite tokens but could use no other model, how things would change. I suspect we both have to go back to very long specs and only using LLMs for a limited set of things. No more Blender, CAD, electronics, and high-level (without needing to micromanage) coding, as it was in the early months of 2025. The models got so much better so fast. But I could be wrong, maybe the Chinese models will work just fine for all the stuff I mentioned. I could be US-pilled (I'm from EU, but still).
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Have you tried 4.1 flash? I'm using it to do machine learning in a audiovisual data pipeline, I basically do nothing, I only provide data and it fine-tunes the algos, thresholds and so on in a loop, and publishes the evidences in markdown, creates images illustrating the clusters it found (I never asked for this!), all by itself. I was late and skeptical of the AI assisted coding but this is truly amazing.
And what absolutely crazy is that I used 2.5B tokens this month and it cost me $1.5 (w/ 99.4% cache hit)
Re:Anthropic IPO
by HDThoreaun on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:33AM
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I use 4.1 flash pretty extensively for translating mandarin to English and it is noticeably worse than claude. In terms of tasks complete I find deepseek to be more expensive than the claude subscription I have as well. Deepseek uses an insane number of tokens per task.