From what I understood, the gist of it is that uses a bunch of skills in a loop to help LLMs solve the tasks better via browser-testing, debugging, visual-testing, etc..
DeepSeek at 1/7 the cost of Opus is the real story here. The only downside is paying for it — Alipay/WeChat only. api-hub.cc lets you use DeepSeek V4 with any credit card, same API.
It is marketing for some SaaS thing. However, I think something like this, "verification loops with some sort of tricks", is what Anthropic and "OpenAI" do behind the scene with their interfaces.
Fair on the length. The verification loop took DeepSeek from ~20 to ~80 on Web-Bench, matching Opus at ~7x less cost. Curious if the method holds up for you.
Well I don’t know what the method is, there’s a mention of ironbee, but I’m not willing to spend the time digging through this to figure out what’s needed and how to set it up.
> I’m not willing to spend the time digging through this to figure out what’s needed
That's the neat part. You don't... need to do this yourself nowadays. AI agent is perfectly capable to figure out any new open source thing that pops up daily now. You can just give it the link to the repo and say "Set this up for me. I wanna play with it."
Zero engagement with anything the post actually says. You've spent more words performing your distaste than it would've taken to read the thing. Recycling slop as a catch all for "I didn't read it" is the real content free contribution here.
Or the people writing this could spend more effort to make it not slop. If they can’t be bothered, I won’t waste my time figuring out if this is worth it, there’s are 1000 other articles to read and techniques to try.
And if this is worth a look, I’m sure I’ll hear about it again from someone who wrote it better.
The skills can be found here:
https://github.com/ironbee-ai/ironbee-devtools-skills/tree/m...
Question that was left unanswered:
How much longer does a 4x DeepSkeep loop took compared to Opus?