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It's pretty funny, i'm a $200/m Claude subscriber and i've had little need to use anything else. However the more Claude has been restricting my workflow (notably around the recent IDE/-p usage change) the more i've been wanting to go elsehwere. I'm concerned since i really want SOTA reasoning, but DeepSeek still has me interested.
If you want SOTA reasoning you should be using GPT 5.5 Pro.
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changing between plan/build mode in some agents will change the tools list, which breaks the cache.
Cache is always there, it’s just that it only caches up to the point where an input token changes. So if the tools list is early in the prompt, changing it would limit cache for most of the prompt. If the tools list is the last thing, you could still get 99% cache hits even if it changes every turn.
This Claude front end skill is now soon to be slop.
I'm not sure you need a "DeepSeek native coding agent" to take advantage of DeepSeeks cache, yesterday as the Codex quota usage issue still wasn't solved for me, I wrote a tiny little bridge so I could use DeepSeek V4 Pro via Codex, and seems most of everything I did was basically cached as far as I can tell: https://i.imgur.com/7eKn6wN.png (2026-05-23 Input (Cache hit): 39,123,200 tokens, Input (Cache miss) 1,692,28…
They explain some of the the reasons why they have a better solution and why they are very opinionated
>Automatic prefix caching activates only when the exact byte prefix of the previous request matches. Most agent loops reorder, rewrite, or inject fresh timestamps each turn — cache hit rate in practice: So they optimize on this plus other techniques to improve cache hits, making it cheaper.
It's pretty funny, i'm a $200/m Claude subscriber and i've had little need to use anything else. However the more Claude has been restricting my workflow (notably around the recent IDE/-p usage change) the more i've been wanting to go elsehwere. I'm concerned since i really want SOTA reasoning, but DeepSeek still has me interested.
There's always the option of using Anthropic's models for some tasks like planning and then just hand over the implementation task to something like DeepSeek. Across different tools, a Markdown plan works pretty okay. That's what I'm planning to do if I go from the 5x Max subscription down to the Pro.
I am also writing a launcher that makes using 3rd party providers with Claude Code easy (https://ccode.kronis.dev) and I already have a local proxy up and running, just not dynamic model switching yet. Though it shouldn't be too hard to add, will probably be there within a week or two, depending on my schedule.
I don't think it's wise to leave Anthropic altogether because their models are great (and a subscription gives you features like Remote Control which I like), but switching tiers and maybe saving a bit of money seems viable! On the other hand, you do need a quality baseline, because I remember using Cerebras with GLM 4.6 way back and there was a bit too much slop.
https://shittycodingagent.ai
For those of you that use deepseek v4 occasionally, what harness do you use it with? I’m only familiar with claude code and codex. Any comments on what you can or cannot rely on it for relative to cc and codex would be appreciated too!