Deepseek R1-0528 + Aider (tried 2025-07-25 and 2025-08-10)

TL;DR Cheap, sometimes slow, unreliable as editor; sometimes wrote good code with bad characters &para; Using it: aider --model openrouter/deepseek/deepseek-r1-0528 I didn't use Deepseek very long - just part of a day on two occasions- and didn't keep very detailed notes. It was kind of slow and made too …