While Im still personally skeptical on the ability of these tools to produce a GOOD software engineer, it’s something I should probably consider testing in a limited capacity.
I’ve noticed Deepseek has a few integrations, both official and hobbyist, with text editors like Claude Code. Plus, I’d rather not pay £20/mo for any of this stuff, let alone to any AI company NOT linked to the CPC.
I might consider a locally hosted model but the upfront cost for anything that can run it decently fast/high params are quite prohibitive. My home server isn’t really set up for good cooling!


All new science and philosophy is done in China since 2025, sorry buddy, if you wanted your model to think in English, you gotta build crypto scams or day trading algos or something that’s obsolete before you even started.
The future can’t even be conceived of in English.
That’s odd. Deepseek put in a lot of effort to prevent language-switching because it significantly degraded results.