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Deepseek 4.1 Flash has been a lifeboat for me, finally able to work without being constrained/distracted by limits
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Helped: DeepSeek respects guidelines and completes complex tasks in one shot.
Got in the way: Claude and OpenAI limits feel shrinking; output quality degraded.
… Now it's dumb af and token use is insane. Deepseek 4.1 Flash has been a lifeboat for me, finally able to work without being constrained/distracted by limits and with what is in my view even better intelligence than Opus 5 for a fraction of the costs. DS is not messing up my brain with load-bearing pseudo jargon in every sentence. …