v4.1 seems pretty trash for generative writing. What have your experiences been?
I mainly use the API, but I also tried the web app and the web app overall seems to not retain information as well. I noticed after the v4.1 update, when generating stories, Deepseek tends to end a part abruptly without properly ending that story segment whereas it did not do this before V4.1. I even went back to v4 Flash and v4 Pro and it occurs with those too now. So whatever they did also impacts v4 Flash and v4 Pro, which sucks. Over all, for the purposes of generative writing, this update has been trash in my experience. v4.1 somehow worked better back when it was only temporary, the full release seems dumber, doesn't retain information as well, and overall is just disappointing. It'd be fine if I could just go back to v4 Flash and v4 Pro as they were before, but that seems impacted as well. Deepseek is cheap, but it does suck having to repeatedly regen stuff wasting token where I didn't have to do this a week ago.
What has your experiences been post the recent v4.1 patch?
Posted Sep 13, 2026, 1:01 AM UTC