DeepSeek models have such good benchmark performance, amazing pricing, and the team over there seems to be widely considered impressive.
I just haven't found them to be very good? I've had a ton more success with the GLM models (since 5.2 anyway). Maybe I'm just holding it wrong, DS models seem to get stuck in loops or tell me nonsense. GLM feels like budget Claude.
How are you holding it? You'll get wildly different real-world results from different inference providers, for one. For two there's the harness and what you do with it. In general you'll need to provide more direction to lightweight models, better guardrails, more planning, tighter goals.
habosa · · focus · HN ↗
I just haven't found them to be very good? I've had a ton more success with the GLM models (since 5.2 anyway). Maybe I'm just holding it wrong, DS models seem to get stuck in loops or tell me nonsense. GLM feels like budget Claude.
0xbadcafebee · · focus · HN ↗