Yes
It can handle 95% of the "actually functional" workload at a tenth of the cost
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95% of the "actually functional" workload
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Helped: Low cost and high capability for most functional tasks.
We have a provider with Deepseek V4 flash at our work. It can handle 95% of the "actually functional" workload at a tenth of the cost. I still pull up beefier ones sometimes, but that's after some consideration. …