alt Hacker NewsI've been building a reasonably complicated project over the past week using deepseek v4 pro almost exclusively (a couple of k2.7 and 1 session with gpt5.5 to re-assess some architectural questions). Deepseek is super capable though if you're a coder. I don't even write "code" but I can tell when it's doing something dumb and tell it how to do it better, but other than that I'm not micro managing it or using it "just for auto complete" or whatever.
And it is SO fucking cheap.
Yes the open source models are very good, that’s a big part of what makes this router save so much money in practice! There definitely are some things they still don’t handle well though where you do want a frontier model