Mixed
I'm still almost always using Claude for work, but for side projects, small stuff, etc. and anything better served by an API rather than starting up Claude Code (or `claude -p`) I'm using DeepSeek pretty often
SwellJoe on Hacker News
80-90% cached tokens
In the thread “Price per 1M tokens is meaningless”
Helped: DeepSeek caching efficiency and low cost for side projects.
Got in the way: Claude guardrails refusing to build security verification harnesses.
… DeepSeek is consistently among the cheapest models per task in my benchmarks, while also performing quite well. I'm still almost always using Claude for work, but for side projects, small stuff, etc. and anything better served by an API rather than starting up Claude Code (or `claude -p`) I'm using DeepSeek pretty often. Anthropic models also shut down on a lot of security-related work, which is what I've been spending a lot of time on lately. …