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).

Have you tried 4.1 flash? I'm using it to do machine learning in an audiovisual data pipeline, I basically do nothing, I only provide labeled data and it fine-tunes the algos, thresholds and so on in a loop, and publishes the evidences in markdown tables, 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 2.4B tokens this month and it cost me $1.7 (w/ 99.4% cache hit) of my $10 sub