DeepSeek 1017 as the Cheap Grunt Coder
Oct 22, 2026 · 586 messages · 76 active members
DeepSeek V4.1 / 1017 is getting strong reviews as a fast, dirt-cheap coding workhorse — one member reported 1.5B tokens for $27. Consensus: great for offloading sub-agent coding work from Claude, but keep Opus 5.5 for pl…
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