Developer Critiques DeepSeek's Engineering Philosophy: Purity Over Practical KISS Solutions
bingxu_ · x · 2026-08-13
A developer points out that DeepSeek's open-source codebase appears to be written by PL and compiler engineers obsessed with a certain kind of purity. However, in the real engineering world, teams often prefer dirty, simple, and straightforward KISS solutions to solve problems.
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