Hey r/DeepSeek ,
I'm a Software Engineer for over 7 years and at work we exclusively use Anthropic & OpenAI for our day-to-day feature work. I wanted to work on a side project and, after researching extensively, I decided to go all in on V4 Flash to test the waters of non-US LLM labs.
The app I built is Holeberry, a native macOS menu bar app for Pi-hole. If you already use Pi-hole to block ads on the DNS-level at home, take a look at it and let me know what you think.
https://github.com/pedrovieira/Holeberry
About my experience with DeepSeek-V4-Flash
I'll be honest here, even though people were saying great things about it, the fact that it was a small-ish model, from China and with that price, it definitely got some raised eyebrows from me. After using it on-and-off for the past couple of months I'm completely sold on it, it's an absolute beast.
I spent some time getting a proper architecture for the app, created multiple architecture and feature-specific markdown files, and even though I didn't just let it do its thing completely free (i.e "read the file and do it") and reviewed most of the code it generated, I found it an amazing workhorse: fast, precise most of the time and cheap. Being skeptical in the beginning, I used some US frontier models to get a second pair of eyes. It was mostly useless as they arrived roughly at the same conclusion. After a while, I just used Flash and myself as the reviewer.
Even with the price hikes I'm still using it, don't think any other model is beating it.
That's it, just wanted to share my perspective and super positive experience with it. I posted my app on other subreddits and when asked which model I used, I got completely bashed by just saying the word DeepSeek ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Source: r/DeepSeek · by /u/W1TCH_