How I Make DeepSeek Work Closer to Claude Code in Practice

People have been asking me how I make DeepSeek feel closer to Claude Code in real work. My answer is not a magic prompt. It is a mentor model workflow. I use a stronger model to plan, supervise, debug, and review. Then I let smaller or cheaper models handle bounded execution tasks in parallel. Important caveat: I am not claiming DeepSeek is equivalent to Claude Code as a single model/tool. The comparison is about the practical workflow effect. 1. The mentor model creates the task...