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Re: DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices

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Post by conception » Thu, Aug 06, 2026, 9:53 PM UTC

Frannky wrote: post #57

anentropic wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious what kind of prompts people are doing to get 'dumb' ideas out of Fable

It's usually one of two things. First, I say I want to build this system solving this problem with these requirements, what do you suggest? It suggests X, then I say, "Hmm, why not Y?" and it goes, "Oh yeah, Y is better," etc. It's similar to the situation where you ask whether you should walk or take the car to go refill the car with gas. I feel LLMs have a linearity embedded in them that prevents them from finding…

It’s a tool that does what you want not an opinionated senior dev. Ask it to research and do an evaluation on the pros and cons of choosing X over Y and it will do a fair job.

Re: DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices

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Post by daemonologist » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 1:20 AM UTC

timpera wrote: post #29

GTP wrote: post #28

The link takes me to a login page.

> We plan to raise the overall pricing for DeepSeek API services in the near future, with a significant increase expected. Please plan your usage accordingly. The specific pricing plan will be subject to official notice. It would be nice to have this notice on the public documentation as well.

It's here as well: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

Re: DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices

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Post by bazhand » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 2:23 PM UTC

Frannky wrote: post #18

I'm using oh my pi with Kimi K3 as the planner and DeepSeek Flash 0731 as the implementer, with OpenRouter as the provider. Any suggestions for a better configuration? I mostly need Opus 4.6 + Claude Code alternative. I don't need Fable level capabilities, I add one new feature at a time and approve the code before shipping it. Then test and open a PR. Usually both Fable and Opus suggest dumb ideas but are good imple…

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Re: DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices

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Post by apercu » Fri, Aug 07, 2026, 8:33 PM UTC

ygjb wrote: post #70

apercu wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm speaking pretty generally here - the tasks vary, as do the models and the way I access them. The point I was making is that they are inconsistent hour to hour, much less day to day and require a very disciplined mindset to babysit, which is sometimes harder than the actual task in play. They do "unstuck" me sometimes. There is value in that. But the value is inconsistent - which was my original point.

Ah yeah, but that's not an AI problem in general. The models are trained on human language and human centered expression. I realized after re-reading, that my comment was more harsh than I intended, I really was trying to be helpful. The first step of asking for help should be asking if you have framed the question or task correctly, that way you build your own understanding of what you are asking the model to help y…

Eh, it’s my fault as I was more blowing off steam than asking for help - I had a long week where in the middle of it my tooling cost me few hours of time but at the end of the week I can say that in spite of that I probably saved 10 hours of work this week _because_ of the tooling.

Re: DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL » Sat, Aug 08, 2026, 4:58 PM UTC

Frannky wrote: post #18

I'm using oh my pi with Kimi K3 as the planner and DeepSeek Flash 0731 as the implementer, with OpenRouter as the provider. Any suggestions for a better configuration? I mostly need Opus 4.6 + Claude Code alternative. I don't need Fable level capabilities, I add one new feature at a time and approve the code before shipping it. Then test and open a PR. Usually both Fable and Opus suggest dumb ideas but are good imple…

Maybe dumb question: why don't you switch back to 4.6? I am still using it