User reports V4.1 Flash 1017 burns too many tokens for coding

Yangyang @yangyang_2048Originally posted 2026.10.18

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Everybody is saying DeepSeek v4.1 flash 1017 is powerful and fast. But they don't mention that using it to code it way too token consuming. Last night i asked it to review the codebase and fix the found bugs, it cost me 4RMB, and I do such job like 20 or 30 times a day. With