In my experience, Deepseek is my favourite model to use for coding tasks. it is not as smart of an assistant as 4o or Sonnet, but it has outstanding task adhesion, code quality is consistently top notch & it is never lazy. unlike GPT4o or the new Sonnet (yuck) it doesn't try to be too smart for its own good, which actually makes it easier to work with on projects. the main downside is that it has a problem with looping, where it gets some concept or context inside its context and refuses to move on from it. however if you remember the old GPT4 ( pre turbo ) days then this is really not a problem, just start a new chat.

Interested that these are peoples experiences of deepseek. personally I was extremely surprised by how uncensored & politically neutral it was in my conversations on many topics. however in my conversations regarding politically sensitive topics I didnt go in all guns blazing. I worked up to asking more politically sensitive questions, starting with simply asking for controversial facts regarding the UK, France, The US, Japan, Taiwan & then mainland China. it told me Taiwan was a country with no prompting or steering in that direction on my part. it also mentioned the tianemen square massacre as a real event. it really only showed ts bias when asked if its status as a model hosten in Beijing could affect its credibility when it comes to neutrality. even on this point it conceded it could, but doubted it would because "the data scientists that created me where only concerned with making a model that provided factually accurate responses" - a Biased model sure, but in my opinion less Biased than one would expect, & less biased than western proprietary models ( even though such models bias' generally leans in my favour )