Run both model tiers on DeepSeek V4 Flash - #117
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The deployment was spending past its daily ceiling on the V4 Pro snapshot. Flash is $0.14/$0.28 per M against pro's $0.435/$0.87, so roughly a third of the bill per token. `reasoning_effort` stays at `medium`, deliberately, and this is the part worth reading twice. The flash endpoint is bimodal: above `off` it spends the whole output budget thinking. A two-reviewer flash council measured 134,704 output tokens over 11 minutes at `medium` against 940 tokens in 24 seconds at `off`. So the per-token saving here is certain and the per-review saving is not — the reasoning depth was wanted and kept, and if the bill does not come down `reasoning_effort` is the lever rather than the model. `doctor` warns about this exact configuration and now fires on the default config, which is correct. One thing is genuinely lost: `deepseek-v4-flash` has no dated snapshot to pin to, where `deepseek-v4-pro-0813` did. DeepSeek can move the build under a reviewer whose output contract is a strict JSON schema, and that shows up as changed review behaviour with no config diff to explain it. `cassette::key` hashes the model first, so every cassette in the corpus misses and `eval::committed_test` fails until it is re-recorded. That needs model budget the key does not currently have. Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The default review tiers now use an unpinned Flash model, which invalidates the evaluation corpus and currently leaves a test failing while also making routing documentation inaccurate. The PR should not merge until the corpus and baseline are refreshed and the documentation is corrected. Possibly related PRs
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In `@src/config/defaults.toml`:
- Around line 122-123: Re-record the evaluation corpus and update the failing
test baseline for the model changes in the scan and deep defaults, ensuring both
review tiers pass evaluation before these defaults take effect.
- Around line 122-123: Update the routing documentation near the scan and deep
defaults to remove the outdated dated-snapshot single-provider claim. Describe
the actual provider-routing control governing these tiers, or explicitly state
that their provider and price may float, while keeping the documented model
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Re-record the evaluation corpus before merging.
Lines 122-123 change the model used by both review tiers. The PR reports that this invalidates all evaluation cassettes and leaves one test failing. Re-record the corpus and update the baseline before this default becomes effective. The scan tier also serves mechanical workloads and issue triage, so the unverified change is not limited to deep reviews.
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In `@src/config/defaults.toml` around lines 122 - 123, Re-record the evaluation
corpus and update the failing test baseline for the model changes in the scan
and deep defaults, ensuring both review tiers pass evaluation before these
defaults take effect.
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Update the dated-snapshot routing documentation.
Lines 108-112 state that Flash is a floating model. However, src/config/defaults.toml lines 285-287 still state that scan and deep are single-provider by virtue of a dated snapshot. That statement is now false. Describe the actual provider-routing control that constrains these tiers, or state that their provider and price can float.
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In `@src/config/defaults.toml` around lines 122 - 123, Update the routing
documentation near the scan and deep defaults to remove the outdated
dated-snapshot single-provider claim. Describe the actual provider-routing
control governing these tiers, or explicitly state that their provider and price
may float, while keeping the documented model assignments unchanged.
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Summary
The deployment was spending past its daily ceiling on the V4 Pro snapshot — the
key hit
HTTP 403: Key limit exceededmid-run while re-recording the evalcorpus for #115. This moves
models.scanandmodels.deeptodeepseek/deepseek-v4-flash.deepseek-v4-pro-0813deepseek-v4-flashRoughly a third of the bill per token.
The caveat, stated plainly
reasoning_effortstays atmedium. That is a deliberate choice to keep reviewdepth, and it means the per-token saving is certain while the per-review
saving is not.
The flash endpoint is bimodal: at any effort above
offit spends the entireoutput budget thinking. The measurement already recorded in
src/app/doctor.rs:doctorwarns about exactly this configuration, and now fires on the shippeddefault:
That warning is correct and is left firing on purpose, so the tradeoff is
visible to whoever reads the bill. If review cost does not come down after
this lands,
reasoning_effort = "off"is the lever — not another model change.The measurement above was taken on a council of two, and this deployment runs
with
council.enabled = false, so the magnitude for a single reviewer per laneis not known. It should be measured once budget allows.
What is lost
deepseek-v4-flashhas no dated snapshot.deepseek-v4-pro-0813was pinnedprecisely so a strict-JSON-schema reviewer could not have its build swapped
underneath it silently; there is no flash equivalent to pin to. A silent build
change will show up as shifted review behaviour with no config diff explaining
it. Worth knowing when a future review looks inexplicably different.
Validation
cargo fmt --all -- --checkcargo clippy --locked --all-targets -- -D warningscargo test --locked— 1447 pass, 1 fails, see belowtinysweeper doctoroutput abovecassette::keyhashesrequest.modelfirst, so changing the tier invalidatesevery cassette — all 16 calls miss and
eval::committed_testfails. This is thetest doing its job.
It needs
tinysweeper eval run --record, which needs model budget the key doesnot currently have (
limit_remaining: 0against a $10/day cap). Same blocker as#115. Both PRs need one record each; neither can have one today.
Note also that
evals/baselines/current.jsonwas recorded onz-ai/glm-5.2andis already stale against main — it predates
2fbe77b, which moved both tiers toDeepSeek without a re-record. It is left alone here rather than quietly
refreshed, but it does mean the corpus has no valid baseline to compare against
until someone decides what it should now claim.
Summary by CodeRabbit
scananddeepmodels to DeepSeek V4 Flash for faster, more flexible model selection.reasoning_effort = "medium".