My coding agent invented its own vision

I was working with my coding agent today and noticed some interesting behavior.

I am using deepseek-v4-flash:0731 which is a text-only model. I’m using it with an Oh-My-Pi backend and Paseo frontend. I described a UI rendering bug to it.

The model, knowing it cannot “see” images, came up with its own clever way to determine if it had fixed the bug or not.

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