Yes
Most of our devs can already do most of their work using DeepSeek 4.1
Gareth321 on Hacker News
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Helped: DeepSeek 4.1 handles most dev work at low cost.
… Given the leaps that Chinese models have made, I don't think they can raise prices that much. Most of our devs can already do most of their work using DeepSeek 4.1. It's not frontier, but it's very good, and it's a fraction of the cost. …