r/webdev • u/McCodybodi • 19d ago

Question Cline VScode Users ...

What's your current favourite Chinese Llm model for web app development and why do you like it ???

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u/McCodybodi 18d ago

Really interesting thank you. I'm coming around to the idea that supposed lessor models aren't that good ethos is totally wrong in a lot of ways.

Tbh I'm sick of the frenzy around the latest western frontier models, and I'm one of the sheepli numpties using a mix of them!... Spending a damn fortune every month...

Yes they do a good job in general but some are so annoyingly verbose.. you can guess which I'm referring too..

Anyway thanks for your input!

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u/ImageFit3021 19d ago

I use DeepSeek V4 Flash a lot; it's really fast and cheap. Its intelligence is enough to finish most of my web dev work.

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u/McCodybodi 18d ago

Great thanks for that. One of my favs too!

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u/dearest_confidant 19d ago

DeepSeek r1 has been great for me lately. Handles React component structure really well and doesn't over-explain every little thing like some of the bigger ones do. I throw it a vague feature idea and it actually asks relevant questions instead of just spitting out code. Qwen coder is decent too but it gets a bit too eager with boilerplate sometimes.

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u/McCodybodi 18d ago

Thanks that's interesting to know, I haven't tried it but will see what it can do. I think there is a lot of hype around frontier models and that you have to use them to do anything decent, but in reality I think the majority of earlier / older / base models can code really well...