Vision language models. 2 notes.

The bulk of my vibe-coding experiments over the last few months have involved audio and video, or rather audio and vision, and I’ve been experimenting pretty heavily with multimodal models. So this is just a small guide based on what I’ve used. If you have some project where you need vision capabilities for text…

I was just testing DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on a bunch of vision tasks with old book pages, and it’s not bad at all. It had issues with some Sanskrit type and diacritic-heavy text, but it still managed reasonably well. And considering the cost, it’s pretty impressive. During off-peak hours, the API is dirt cheap. That means…