Comment by xyzzy_apps

Absolutely!

DeepSeek feels like an excellent sparring partner. The others feel like mind readers.

I don't have to worry about any complex context engineering / multi agent stuff if I am using DeepSeek because the sequential stuff is fast enough. I don't have to bother about touching a million context length because its cheap enough.

Where it seems to lag behind is 3d, computer use, motion graphics, design but the initial demos seem like the vision model has improved substantially.