DeepSeek says hallucinations are a product issue, but coding agents are the priority

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-07-23

DeepSeek frames hallucinations as a product issue, but says they are not the priority

A screenshot of quoted internal remarks says DeepSeek has one main thread: stay focused on the road to AGI instead of maximizing near-term product revenue.

Key points from the remarks:

Products are a by-product on the path to AGI; too much focus on C-end or B-end products is seen as a “dimensionality strike.”
3D, video generation, and world models are described as outside the main thread, because they do not relate much to the upper bound of intelligence.
Multimodality matters for products and end users, but is framed as a component rather than intelligence itself.
Hallucinations in large models are said to be solvable in the long run, but internally treated as a product problem rather than the main focus.
Coding agents are described as the most important current direction; the remarks argue for going all-in on a general-purpose agent.
Finance and healthcare agents are described as lower priority.
The final remark says it would be nice if DeepSeek becomes one of the trillion-dollar companies of the AI era.

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DeepSeek says hallucinations are a product issue, but coding agents are the priority

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