Quiet Saturday update from DeepSeek.

Quiet Saturday update from DeepSeek. It's called V4.1-Flash-1017, which honestly sounds like a printer cartridge.

They say it's faster, gives shorter answers and does better on coding and agent tasks. Price stays the same. Their changelog has all the scores if you like tables: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/

The part I actually like: on the API you change nothing, deepseek-flash just points to the new version. For a small STARTUP thats how upgrades should work.

But. Earlier this week they were down for about five hours. Cheap and fast means nothing when the server is not answering.

So for now I'd treat it as a backup, not the main model. Anyone running it in production?