alt Hacker NewsYeah. People should absolutely be _trying_ the Chinese models, and experimenting with running things locally, but the noise in development is genuinely all Claude and Codex.
I put my foot in the mobile comparison the other day, and will again. If you were to go back and be a mobile dev in 2010 by all means specialize on one platform, but play with both as a professional interest to stay realistic. Here it's important people have access to US/Chinese/Other, open/closed, local/cloud and that this remains. Don't become a blind Claude guy or a open weights fanatic: that way lies disappointment.
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Dunno I put to deep seek the question what I’d need in hardware to get full service k3 with lower latency in western pa (I was making like it was a business proposition.) It says several million dollars at minimum.
Unlike iOS/Android choice which has broad personal ecosystem implications, changing IP address to another LLM provider is effortless.
Frankly I don't see much difference between Claude and DeepSeek except in the price. I use the Pro plan to work for a customer of mine and I topped up $2 on DeepSeek in late May for personal use. I worked on 3 projects and I still have $0.72 left. The Chinese companies will win on price, not openness.
If startups includes openclaw users then I could see this being true.
Deepseek is barely behind frontier models while 10x cheaper and 99% discount for cache.