DeepSeek API: When the Reasoning Model Is Worth the Wait (and When It Isn’t)
The short version, stated as a conclusion: make the chat model your default and treat the reasoning model as a deliberate escalation. The reasoning model you reach through the DeepSeek API earns its extra time and tokens on a short, specific list of jobs: hard debugging, multi-step math, and planning under constraints. On everything else it […]
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