Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
Chinese AI apps post user numbers that would embarrass most Silicon Valley launches. Whether you can install one, sign up and pay from the United States is a separate question. It breaks into three doors: the download, the account and the money. Most coverage skips the doors and talks about benchmarks. That is backwards for … Read more
DeepSeek’s official Harness desktop app is nearly ready. Run V4.1 Flash daily? Then this is the client worth waiting for. Here is the state of it. A few days ago people noticed a desktop client branch inside the DeepSeek Harness repository. Compiling it yourself was the only way to run it. Now the main branch … Read more
The apps you have probably never opened There is a quiet gap between what Americans think is happening in AI and what is actually happening. In the US, the names are ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Midjourney. In much of the rest of the world, a different set of apps leads. Most of them come from … Read more
A design task that runs $1.61 on GPT-6 Astra costs about 2.3 cents on DeepSeek’s new model. Same brief, same output, one bill sixty times smaller. That single number is the whole pitch. DeepSeek widened that gap on purpose, and it did it three days after teaching its chatbot to talk out loud. Vision is … Read more
DeepSeek dropped a new model yesterday. No warning. No teaser campaign. Just a quiet API update and a bunch of benchmark numbers that made me do a double take. Here’s the thing about DeepSeek: they always do this. You’re sitting there, minding your own business, and suddenly they launch something that makes everyone else look … Read more
I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect much when I saw the announcement. Another vision model. Another API endpoint. Another “exp” tag that usually means “try it if you’re bored.” But then I actually read what this thing does. And I spent a couple hours poking at it. Now I’m sitting here writing this, which means … Read more
DeepSeek’s API is cheap. Like, really cheap. Cheaper than almost anything else out there. That alone makes it worth a look. But here’s the thing — I spent a good chunk of last week hitting every error code they have. Not on purpose at first. But after I tripped over a few, I figured I … Read more
I started using DeepSeek’s API about three weeks ago. Not because I needed another AI tool — I already pay for a few — but because a friend kept mentioning how cheap it was. I figured I’d burn a few bucks, test it out, and forget about it. I didn’t forget about it. But I … Read more
DeepSeek Harness just got another update. RC.8 landed two days after RC.7, and it’s not just a bug-fix release. This one changes how the whole thing works. The short version: DeepSeek Harness is turning into a dispatch layer for AI agents. You give it a task, it works out which agent should handle which part, … Read more
I will be honest about my first reaction. When I saw DeepSeek Harness (DSH) trending on GitHub, I assumed it was another AI repository riding a wave of hype. GitHub star counts can mean several different things. Sometimes they reflect respect for the founder. Sometimes people bookmark a repo to read later and then forget … Read more