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I've spent sub 2$ in 5 days of work using DS 4 Pro, which is on average just 4 queries to Anthropic
epolanski on Hacker News
16 tasks in 4 days
In the thread “US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks”, replying to this comment
Helped: DeepSeek for mundane tasks and low cost; Opus for code review and vibe coding.
Got in the way: DeepSeek failed harder when off rails and gave low quality code review feedback.
… But the cost concern is real. I've spent sub 2$ in 5 days of work using DS 4 Pro, which is on average just 4 queries to Anthropic. Give me a slightly better DS 4 (it is still in preview and training isn't finished) and I may ditch Anthropic for good.