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I've been trying to use DeepSeek V4.1 Flash more and been very impressed. My current (very rough) rule of thumb is that an Artificial Analysis score of ~40 is the crossover point for "good enough" for most of the things I need to do with coding agents.

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47 is my crossover for serious things (e.g. Grok 4.7 is below the line and GPT 6 Sol is above the line). I mean, Opus 5.5 is way better, but GPT 6 Sol still gets the job done for anything that doesn't require design thinking.

Although I do think Luna 6 max is ok for some basic things, would never use it for coding myself.

What's the most important task you would/wouldn't trust with an agent below the line?

Had the same experience. I got rid of my pro sub of OpenAI. I’m really freaking impressed.

Where are you inferencing DS4.1 flash reliably ?

I use OpenCode Go. I've also used the DeepSeek provider through OpenRouter a bit in the past and it seemed solid.

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