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Claude Code on DeepSeek: 17x Cheaper

Topics: Claude Code, DeepSeek, AI Costs, Developer Tools, Open Source Claude Code’s tool ecosystem and the model it runs on are two separate things. A project called DeepClaude treats them that way. DeepClaude intercepts API calls from Claude Code and routes them to DeepSeek V4 instead of Anthropic’s models. The tool layer, file editing, bash execution, session context, autonomous loops, stays intact. The inference backend changes. The cost difference is approximately 17x. ...

May 7, 2026 · Mario Martinez Jr.

I Built a Trading Bot That Runs Its LLM on a Jetson in My Closet

Topics: Python, Alpaca, Ollama, Jetson Orin Nano, Trading Automation The trading bot watches XNDU every five minutes during market hours. XNDU is a photonic quantum computing company. Photonics means room temperature operation. The cooling infrastructure that makes quantum computing prohibitively expensive at scale is not part of the design. XNDU had solid financials this week and got upgraded to a strong buy. I queued 100 paper shares for the 9:31 AM open on April 30, 10% trailing stop, $5,000 position cap. ...

April 30, 2026 · Mario Martinez Jr.