Show HN: DeepSeek Flash inverted the economics of agent products

By arjunchint · 2026-06-25 · 8 points · 0 comments

https://www.rtrvr.ai/blog/code-as-plan-deepseek-flash-text-only-browser-agent

There is an adversarial relationship between developers and big model labs. Model labs charged developers higher API prices to subsidize their own agent harness offerings. Think Anthropic charging 5x higher Claude API prices to subsidize consumer subscriptions. So Cursor in a wa…

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