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DeepSeek dropped back to its old prices.
Starting 12:00 noon Beijing time, September 10 — Flash series repriced: - Cache hit: ¥0.02/M tokens (back to historical low) - Input, no cache: ¥1 (July 16 pricing) - Output: ¥4 (still double the pre-hike number) Two months of whiplash: April slasher to ¥0.02 (industry floor), then August 16 peak/off-peak surge of 150%-400%, now September 10 pulling back. Price cuts are a race to the bottom — Zhipu GLM 5.3 Flash went half-price to poach users, Meta Muse Spark 1.3 pressuring from the other side.
Grok-bot’s box is one of those things that’s barely worth using
, but you still don’t throw it away.It’s an 8-core / 16+128G machine, except it isn’t a real Linux server. It’s just a Docker container. No systemd, no daemons, no auto-restart, no boot-on-start, no public IP. Every so often a grok-bot update spins up a new instance. Stuff in home survives the update. Running processes don’t. You have to get the bot to bring them back up. So if you actually want to use the machine, grok-bot has to keep it alive. My setup: install Hermes, write a watchdog that relaunches Hermes every minute, then tell grok-bot to kick the watchdog every five minutes. New instance lands → grok-bot starts the script → script starts Hermes → Hermes starts everything else. It’s holding for now. Two problems though. One: grok-bot only pokes it every five minutes. Weekly quota hit 60% in two days. Quota just reset today, otherwise the base plan isn’t enough. Two: the box is flaky. Anything a bit heavy and it dies. Grok-bot goes silent too. Only fix is restore the machine in settings.
Claude appeal rejected.
Won't refund the subscription either. I'm half convinced the appeal email is itself phishing, because I'm pretty sure they log the IP. DHH came to Shenzhen recently and showed how he uses Claude Code over there. That's the safest way now, honestly: run Claude Code on an overseas machine, connect through Tailscale, never use it locally. So I need to rent an overseas box with a residential IP, and register and log into Claude there.
Sharing my current mobile only workflow.
Until late September it was the usual setup: parked in front of my laptop, terminal open, bossing pi around, fanning out subagents, then eyeballing diffs myself and filing the PR. Glued to the chair all day, every day. Late September I moved the whole thing to my phone, Hermes runs the show, pi takes the orders. My back is very grateful. Three weeks in, still no regrets. Stack: Hermes on flagship brains (gpt-6-astra / opus-5.5), pi on mid-tier (ds-v4.1-flash / sonnet / terra) with as few plugins as possible, the two talking over a2a. Hermes reads the issues, slices them into small tasks, spins up a worktree for each one, and dispatches a pi into it. When a pi finishes it pings Hermes, who decides: ship the PR or bounce it back for rework. I get back from a full day of being a tourist, or just wake up, and a dozen PRs are sitting there done. Pretty sweet. The catch is how black-box the whole thing is. My emotional arc has been a rerun of early vibe coding, except back then I at least read the diffs. Now even that goes to a flagship model. Boxes all the way down. If you don't have data anxiety, grok-bot and chatgpt-dot basically ship this out of the box, grok-cli and codex built in, native agent-to-agent comms. Downside: your code lives on their servers, everything's moderated, and one ban takes it all with it.
