alt Hacker NewsDeepSeek is an open weights model. It's possible the hosted versions are subsidized, but we know what it costs to run locally. And it's expensive, but it's also pretty clearly cheaper than an employee.
Of course, the latest DeepSeek models are not as good as Claude, but they're not super far off either.
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irishcoffee • today at 5:27 PM
They're not far off, getting the same seamless integration as hosted models is a full time job. I think what just happened is that devops is about to explode. What will naturally follow is local hosting of all the things when people realize subscription costs for cloud-whatever are absurd.
Gitlab is going to take off? This is not investment advice.
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When you use DeepSeek’s first-party API, you are giving them your token stream. This has some training value, but it also has incredible amounts of, well, business intelligence value. When you tell AWS your secrets or your customer data, you can be fairly confident they won’t abuse that knowledge. When you give this data to, say, OpenAI, they more or less promise not to abuse it if you’re on an appropriate business plan. If you give it to DeepSeek, even incidentally as something your agent reads, I would be quite surprised if DeepSeek doesn’t mine it for whatever purpose they or the government feel is appropriate.
The risk of letting your agent read .env goes far beyond the risk that the agent itself does something you don’t like with the contents.