DeepSeek Flash inverted the economics of agent products
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Browser agents have long been expensive because they rent frontier AI models as the runtime, paying for every screenshot-to-click loop. DeepSeek Flash breaks this by writing the workflow as executable code once, letting a local harness run it — cutting costs over 100x through fewer model calls, cached text, and cheaper tokens.
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