Comment by dartos

Yeah, in my comparing deepseek coder 2 lite (the best coding model I can find that’ll run on my 4090) to Claud sonnet under aider…

Deep seek lite was essentially useless. Too slow and too low quality edits.

I’ve been programming for about 17 years, so the things I want aider to do are a little more specific than building simple web apps. Larger models are just better at it.

I can run the full deepseek coder model on some cloud and probably get very acceptable results, but then it’s no longer local.