I used DeepSeek-v3.2 to solve two coding problems by pasting code and directions as one large prompt into a chat interface and it performed very well. VERY WELL

I used DeepSeek-v3.2 to solve two coding problems by pasting code and directions as one large prompt into a chat interface and it performed very well. VERY WELL! I am still happy to pay Google because of their ecosystem or Gemini app, NotebookLM, Colab, gemini-cli, etc. Google’s moat for me is all the tooling and engineering around the models. That said, my one year Google AI subscription ends in four months and I might try an alternative, or at least evaluate options. Alibaba Cloud looks like an interesting low cost alternative to AWS for building systems. I am now a retired ‘gentleman scientist’ now and my personal research is inexpensive no matter who I pay for inference compute, but it is fun to spend a small amount of time evaluating alternatives even though mostly using Google is time efficient.