What quantization are you using? Which infra provider?

Baseten.co's version got into a loop rather rapidly... I've since added loop detection and adjusted some other settings on the pi coding agent and have yet to notice it again. I also switched to DeepInfra ... who serves an fp4 version admittedly, but I've had no issues with it as of yet and it's the top provider on openrouter.ai volume wise.

I think this one requires a bit of strong prompting. I am also normally a Pi user, but my experience in OpenCode with this model has been drastically better than in Pi, where it overthinks a lot and gets distracted by random things.

It might be even better in Codex or Oh My Pi according to this bench I saw earlier: https://nitter.net/composio/status/2085330847951970801

using the platform.deepseek API version I haven't had this happen once in my usage (which has been exclusive since its release). Which provider are you using? I also use a pretty bare bones Pi.

I've been using for work, from opencode $10/mo subscription plan, on high effort (which is better than max imo), and haven't had any issue.

When it was first available in opencode, it was kinda slow for me, I guess because everyone wanted to try the new shiny. But now it's back to being screamingly fast and Opus 4.8 level of smart, for penies.

Yeah, I saw the same thing - quite annoying. It can be mitigated through the prompt.