DeepSeek handled the prompt well enough to make one user consider $500K in GPUs
yacineMTB · x · 2026-08-04
The author says that if a prompt they just gave DeepSeek works smoothly after dealing with Codex’s “sandbagging,” they may end up spending around $500,000 on GPUs.
The post is a blunt reaction to model behavior: it suggests DeepSeek handled the prompt reliably enough to materially affect the author’s infrastructure spending plans.
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