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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