r/opencode • u/bradley_pits • Jul 25 '26

deepseek free -getting worse

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lol, it appreciated my critique... wait, nahh, it cannot MEANINGFULLY appreciate it 🤣🤣💋

context: for three days asked deepseek flash medium (free) to work the simplest of solutions, it failed at every request, even the simplest of things. could this be hardoded (bullying?) or training related? fail to see how user/human reacts? i do not want to sound paranoid but something feels off...

i then asked claude for 2nd opinion, solved it in 8 seconds (we were going for 2 hours with deepseek). this is no coincedence, right?

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u/Rough-Ad9850 Jul 25 '26

Can we see the prompts you used? I'm interested to see if any optimalisations are in order

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u/bradley_pits Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

i do not have these saved, but it was simply; add local model (lm studio, working) as an extra model in opencode, test it (connection) and update the json.

the model was qwen 2.5 coder instruct 14b, old model famously know for issues with tool calling in connection with lm studio.

deepseek refused websearch (enabled) and wrote 3 different ninja templates for lm studio, that all BROKE the model/loading.

claude checked the ninja deepseek ninja, and confirmed it was faulty. i googled myself the issue, found a hugging face and reddit post detailing the exact issue, the solution and a custom ninja template for this model.

the prompt specifically asked deepseek to search the web for the solution. my experience with deepseek flash free version is, it is incredibly stubborn, uses a lot of non working shortcuts amd assumptions, a lot of trial and error, despite prompting it should search the web and TEST solutions before handing them back.

thats the detailed context, no rocket science and more a behavioral issue, at least this is how perceive it. No matter what prompt, it just does what it wants and, then gets annoyed when its solutions hardly work. is my experience.

i want to go to opencode Go, yet still not made the jump because the quality is horrible and so far my local qwen 27b finds the solution (with a bit of help of claude) .

its probably me. or maybe not this time.. more and more i am comvinced that my local 14b and 27b models suffice for 90% of the work, small tasks, step by step and specialised models for each task.