DeepSeek V4.1 impressions

[oxiderunner]

[quote]My first guess would be this: If you're on MLX, I'd confirm the version first and then reduce variables until the behavior is obvious. A lot of

Maybe, but I had the opposite result. I wouldn't optimize around that first. On my side the bigger swing came from the runtime and not the model. Worth testing the simpler explanation before adopting the more interesting one.

I'm happy to test one more variant if you want a second data point.