Aider + Deepseek 3 vs Claude 3.5 Sonnet (side-by-side coding battle)

I hosted an LLM coding battle between the two best models on Aider's new Polyglot Coding benchmark: https://youtu.be/EUXISw6wtuo

Some findings:

- Regarding Deepseek 3, I was VERY surprised to see an open source model measure up to its published benchmarks!

- The 3x speed boost from v2 to v3 of Deepseek is noticeable (you'll see it in the video). This is what myself and others were missing when using previous versions of Deepseek

- Deepseek is indeed better at other programming languages like .NET (as seen in the video with the ASP .NET API)

- I didn't think it would come this year, but I honestly think we have a new LLM coding king

- Deepseek is still not perfect in coding

- Sometimes Deepseek seemed to have been used Claude to train how to code. I saw this in the type of questions it asks, which are very similar in style to how Claude asks questions

Please let me know what you think, and subscribe to the channel if you like side-by-side LLM battles