jamesinmn

Does that make DeepSeek V4 Flash MiniSotA? This dev in the Twin Cities would like to know.

Just look up OpenRouter, OpenCode Go/Zen, Together, Fireworks, Cerebras, etc.

DeepSeek Platform API is worth checking out too, due to their insanely good caching and token costs.

I don’t like putting blame on the builders

Why does it have to be either/or?

From a high-level view, there are powerful cultural/political forces that nudge us towards building harmful, wasteful things without us being aware of said forces. The government, corporate greed, and billion-dollar marketing budgets are to blame.

But on the ground, from an in-the-trenches perspective, I think an engineer at Meta, for example, shares in some level of blame, too. Mainly because there is plenty of evidence showing how much harm Meta products have brought upon society. Yet Meta couldn’t be built without engineers opting in to work there in exchange for $300k salaries.

We desperately need moral clarity and courage at both the policy-level and the individual level.

I spent the night on Flatéy, a 2km long Icelandic island, in 2024, and there were around a half dozen Massey Fergusons strewn about.

The old church had a mural of Icelandic Jesus wearing a fisherman’s sweater.