In particular regarding free as in freedom, so about access and control. Just like I never enjoyed working with proprietary coding platforms, OS, or IDEs, I’m not particularly excited about proprietary models.
Check out DeepSeek v4.1 Flash, just released, and I am enjoying it more than Claude.
No one can run it locally.. Yet.. But give it a few years and I wouldn't be surprised if models of that capability were standard for programming laptops.
We don't know the training set so it's still not very transparent - and means giving away some control. Then again, it does look better than closed weights
> Its just that, it used to be free. All I needed was a computer.
https://xcancel.com/rustishard/status/2098853622263976328#m
Same here.
In particular regarding free as in freedom, so about access and control. Just like I never enjoyed working with proprietary coding platforms, OS, or IDEs, I’m not particularly excited about proprietary models.