DeepSeek V4 Flash beats Claude via self-verification on Terminal-Bench
nptacek · x · 2026-08-21
Sampling 5 solutions with DeepSeek V4 Flash and ranking them using the same model (LLM-as-a-Verifier) boosts accuracy on Terminal-Bench 2.1 from 79% to 88%, outperforming closed frontier models at 11x lower cost.
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