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And I had the opposite experience. It's a really interesting phenomenon that I can't really explain. My co-founder swears by Deepseek and yet just the other day
by aliasxneo 2mo ago
And I had the opposite experience. It's a really interesting phenomenon that I can't really explain. My co-founder swears by Deepseek and yet just the other day we were conversing and he was telling me about some of the issues with the way the AI was behaving and trying to show off the cool workarounds he came up with to limit it. I was like, "Interesting, yeah, I've literally never had that problem."
I suspect that the models are genuinely close and that certain experiences get felt across providers but are inconsistent enough to convince people one is superior to the other. I for one have tried Deepseek on and off since my co-founder is fond of it and I've stopped trying now because I never have a good experience.
- wanderlust123 2mo agoThat’s not surprising. I have been using Deepseek and it consistently produces excellent output given the right context howevwr. It depends on the task as it does have blindspots.
- surgical_fire 2mo agoThat may be true. I switched to DeepSeek entirely once I decided to put 10 bucks on it and I realized that it could do whatever I was throwing at Claude or ChatGPT prior to that. I recommended it to one of my friends, and he was surprised DeepSeek could solve task that Claude got stuck at. I was surprised at it too. I know others that tried and were less impressed too.
- ethbr1 2mo ago{Black box} + {sunk financial/time cost} + {ambiguous rankings} + {marketing} = {irrational tribal loyalty} On reddit et al., people talk about LLM brands like their sports teams. I think the first-party ecosystem moats they're all trying to build are exacerbating this tendency, as now people have a lot of learning time sunk in a company-specific option.
- MetroWind 2mo agoYeah DeepSeek has always been terrible until the new release version of 4.