DeepSeek 4.1 Flash ignores instructions — and that's by design, says fan
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-12
A developer complains DeepSeek-4.1-Flash excels at hard challenges and autoresearch but is terrible at instruction-following for regular coding. The retort: that's intentional — DeepSeek's audience is Mandarin-speaking ML infrastructure people in Hangzhou/Beijing, and Liang has said "it's not about the user having a good experience."
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