Reddit user questions the hype around DeepSeek 4.1 Flash and Qwen3-Coder 48B Turbo as coding models
soft_troll · reddit · 2026-10-06
After testing DeepSeek 4.1 Flash and Qwen3-Coder 48B Turbo via DeepInfra, the poster says they can't understand the hype: both are extremely cheap but stall on anything complex and often fail to find the actual bug. They're fine for scaffolding and boilerplate, but fall apart beyond a simple React site — even there they confidently make wrong changes. Against Claude Opus 5.5 they're 'not remotely competitive'. The poster suspects the hype is about code generated per dollar rather than real reasoning and debugging ability, and asks the community what he's missing.
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