> on par with deepseek atleast

For chatbot-style usage maybe, can’t really attest to that; for long-running, long-context “agentic” work including planning, within a harness etc., definitely not (yet).

> What I would see even more likely are requirements of no agent commits, use of only human written/vetted code under their name.

I mean in the end that’s what the Kernel project does now, IIRC? Everything has to have a response human’s sign-off.