User says a smooth DeepSeek workflow could justify spending $500K on GPUs
yacineMTB · x · 2026-08-04
The author says they need to make a bit more money, then adds that if a prompt they just sent to DeepSeek works smoothly after Codex’s “sandbagging,” they might spend as much as $500K on GPUs.
It’s a small but revealing note about practical model testing and how quickly serious users translate a good coding workflow into compute spend.
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