DeepSeek V4.1 Rates Itself Highly—Then Distrusts Its Own Subagents
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-14
An X user shares an amusing DeepSeek V4.1 behavior: in a multi-agent task, the lead model thinks highly of itself while distrusting its own subagents (also V4.1).
The screenshot shows its full delegation reasoning: weighing AGENTS.md guidance, it decides "I should prioritize writing code myself (fastest and most coherent)" and only assigns independent verification—a physics oracle test suite and a blind audit—to a sim-oracle subagent, worrying coordination overhead may exceed benefit. Both a funny moment and a window into how frontier models reason about self-trust and delegation in agent teams.
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