Comment by computerex
2 hours ago
What is your evidence? Deepseek v4.1 Flash is by far the most popular coding model on openrouter, having processed 38.7T tokens in just the last 7 days, over 3x the usage of the 2nd rank model.
So I ask again, what are you basing your assertion on?
my own usage of deekseep v4.1 flash, and that among the dozens of great programmers i know, not a single person is using it
BUT. they are employed to do / deciding-to-do authentic (if often meaningless) stuff.
here's a short list of inauthentic activity that claude and openai refuse to do:
- chat services that, when you ask them, say they are not chatbots when they are
- code to work around software licenses or DRM
- code to scrape or download copyrighted material
- directly cheating on homework
- adopting a persona in social media that spreads misinformation or propaganda
this is but a short list. but ask me, "are there enough inauthentic activity demands such that someone who CANNOT USE claude or gpt as the LLM would use dsv4.1 on openrouter instead?" yes. i mean there are whole countries right now where the culture can be summarized as, "bottom to top, inauthentic activity." i am surprised it is not more usage!
So your argument is that the 38T of tokens used in the last 7 days is by moron programmers or people doing "inauthentic" tasks? You think the person who made this post is also an idiot?
Do you realize how incredibly delusional/self-centered you sound?
do YOU know anyone gainfully employed in programming who is using dsv4.1 to do work? what kind of work is it? why don't you ask them if it is good?
in the market, where you cannot fake or hide stuff very easily: the outsource customer services and cheating sectors have been the most disrupted. Cheating company Chegg lost 99% of its market value. CS it remains to be seen - https://www.reuters.com/technology/teleperformance-shares-pl... - certainly perceived to be disrupted, but they are not dead yet.
in my personal usage: dsv4 is generally pretty buggy. for example, if you give it a needle-in-the-haystack simple copying problem, it catastrophically fails to find needles if they happen to be positioned at index 250k tokens out of 1m. it can also be triggered to spew all sorts of garbage when DSpark is enabled during ordinary long-context coding, such as spewing weird DSML tool call errors after a normally parsed tool call error.
i don't know why you have to attack me personally, i think you're a bright and otherwise nice person and you understand the thrust of my POV.
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