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NoClaude, DeepSeek · 4 May 2026

I just blew through 15 dollars in 45 minutes on a moderate sized code base, just making a plan and executing a refactoring of an upload pipeline to use a state machine

ultrasandwich on Hacker News

15 dollars in 45 minutes

In the thread “DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro”

Got in the way: High cost for moderate refactoring task

Using this "out-of-the-box" with an OpenRouter subscription using DeepSeekv4, I just blew through 15 dollars in 45 minutes on a moderate sized code base, just making a plan and executing a refactoring of an upload pipeline to use a state machine. Not really seeing the cost savings for real-world work tbh.