Coding-specialized DeepSeek V4 Flash hurts long-context novel and RP users

teortaxesTex · x · 2026-09-16

Chinese forum users report that the new DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is very poor at long-context fiction writing, matching earlier observations about V4 Flash's weak long-context chat. TeortaxesTex quips that this explains the uproar: the coding-specialized model is rough on novel and RP users, adding that web novel culture produced "poisonous training data" even before LLMs.

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