DeepSeek V4 Pro, Grok Bot, Seedance UGC — AI Daily Aug 12
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DS4Pro-0813 launched fast (~65 tok/sec, ~2x K3) and dirt cheap with SSD-backed caching, but real-world testing exposed benchmaxxing — @jcartu's Rubik's cube build failed after 90 minutes, and there's no vision support. GLM, Kimi K3, and Qwen emerged as the community's preferred 'honest' picks, with only the DeepSeek flash variant getting a pass for its size.
Grok 4.6 tested well as a fast, competent orchestrator, though Terminal Bench v3.0 still puts it behind Sol and Fable. Grok Bot's headline feature — persistent per-agent virtual desktops with 16GB RAM that sign into apps and continue work offline — was called a normie Hermes and a real consumer-grade UX leap. @jarvisballer already prefers Grok over Fable for execution work.
@arielletolome pushed daily UGC spend from $200 to $500 by running full unedited Seedance 2.5 videos with b-rolls and POV shots. Community consensus: prompt away from on-screen text (Seedance mangles it, Kling handles it better), and Seedance 2 mini is the higher-volume, lower-cost play. Offer strength matters far more than production polish.
Builders converged on splitting roles: Fable or Opus 5 for planning, Codex/Sol or Grok for execution, Gemini for quick tasks. GPT-5 sol-xhigh over-engineers from scratch but polishes well. OMP users fixed bloated outputs by stripping imported Claude Code and Codex agent profiles (@Tz1888), and Kieran flagged auto-resume of to-do lists as worth disabling. Codex hit an unexpected weekly usage reset.
@jcartu positioned Hindsight as SOTA memory (leads LongMemEval and BEAM), with Mastra and Mem0 close enough that switching rarely pays off. @swh800 shipped a Hermes-powered image pipeline running 250 images overnight on a flat Codex plan instead of paying Kie API per call. RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell hit ~$15k CAD; four cards unlock full-precision GLM 5.2 with 1M context locally.
Key Takeaways
- DeepSeek V4 Pro looks great on paper but fails real workloads — default to GLM, Kimi K3, or Qwen until independent evals catch up.
- Grok Bot's per-agent VMs (16GB RAM, persistent, app-authenticated) are a genuine consumer UX shift, even if the underlying model is derivative.
- Best coding results come from role splitting: Fable/Opus plans, Codex/Sol or Grok executes, Gemini handles quick tasks — never let GPT-5 sol-xhigh start from zero.
- If OMP outputs feel bloated, purge agent profiles imported from Claude Code and Codex; keep only native OMP agents.
- Full unedited Seedance 2.5 videos scale UGC ad spend past $500/day — prompt away from on-screen text or hand text-heavy scenes to Kling.
Hot Threads
DeepSeek V4 Pro real-world testing, benchmaxxing, and honest-model alternatives
Fable vs Opus 5 vs Codex — multi-LLM routing and OMP harness cleanup
Seedance 2.5 scaling UGC ads to $500/day with unedited videos