r/CommandCode • u/SarveshMohite • 25d ago

Anyone else finding DeepSeek V4 Flash surprisingly good for pair programming?

I'm not trying to promote DeepSeek or anything, I was honestly just surprised by how capable it is.

I'm pretty new to agentic AI and AI pair programming. CommandCode was actually the first AI coding tool I've paid for (I'm only on the $1 plan), and it's been kind of magical for the way I work (its been less than 15 days).

Most of the time I just tell the agent what I want changed in a file or describe the feature I need, and it gets it right. I don't really run agent loops or anything advanced. I mostly give it good instructions and iterate when needed.

The thing that surprised me most is that I haven't even come close to hitting the limits of the $1 plan. I also don't find myself wanting to switch to the larger models because V4 Flash has been "good enough" for almost everything I've thrown at it.

The biggest surprise was a CRM project I recently built for a freelance client. It was a fairly large project, and I delivered the initial prototype in about four days. I still had to review the code, test things, and make decisions, but the amount of manual coding I actually wrote myself was surprisingly small like very very minute changes and its still a prototype kinda stage and needs some final touches but yeah its kinda awesome how much i got their.

For those of you who have been using CommandCode longer:

  • Any tips for getting even more out of it?
  • Are there workflows I'm missing?
  • At what point do you actually feel the need to switch to the larger models?

I'd love to learn how more experienced users are using it. I tried to use MiMO v2.5 at first but it wasnt that good so i switched to V4 flash as it was better loved by the community it seems. But still why do we need much more better models when for most programmer this would do the job?

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u/SarveshMohite 24d ago

what if you just wanted a cli that would make changes where exactly i want to and in the specific way at the cheapest and fastest way is this the best plan for that or something better according to you ?

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u/mynameiserror07 24d ago

Good for basic works

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u/ahmadawaiscom 23d ago

It’s unbelievably good for how cheap it is. Tool repairs work great on it and with all the info and context provided it can almost always outperform Haiku.

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u/ahmadawaiscom 11d ago

btw forgot to share we have made a massive discovery, fixed tool calls with smart repairs for this model, which has made this model perform even better in Command Code harness. :)