[nchmy]

This is my observation as well with deepseek by flags. It takes too much initiative, and is often not particularly smart. Yet, I find it is so fast and good at iterating/correcting it's mistakes that it eventually finds the way on its own.

Though, I tend to use it as a pair programmer so just stop it and provide guidance.

The real problem is that it is excessively verbose - it's impossible to keep up with it's train of thought, and not practical to read it all. So I tend it just let it do it's thing then skim a bit and skip to the end for it's summary.

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