Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
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 it … 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 … Read more
I’ll be honest — when I first saw DeepSeek Harness (DSH) trending on GitHub, I figured it was just another AI repo with a lot of hype. Star counts on GitHub can mean a few different things. Sometimes it’s respect for the founder. Sometimes people just bookmark a repo for later and forget about it. … Read more
I’ve been messing around with AI coding tools for a while now. And honestly? I got tired of switching between five different apps just to test one model against another. ChatGPT for one thing, Claude for something else, then back to DeepSeek for a third task. It was getting ridiculous. So when I heard about … Read more
The short version: DeepSeek open-sourced their Agent harness — the scaffolding that turns a raw model into something that actually works in the real world. And they did it in a way that openly admits what everyone in the industry has been quietly realizing: the model itself isn’t the whole story anymore. Honestly? I spent … Read more
I’ll be honest — I had high hopes for DeepSeek Harness. When I heard DeepSeek was releasing their first Agent product, I pictured something like Codex or Workbuddy. Maybe a polished desktop app. Or at least a Claude Code-style CLI tool that you could fire up and start using right away. I thought the whole … Read more
DeepSeek dropped something new just yesterday — August 13. Not a model this time, but an agent harness called DeepSeek Harness. They open-sourced it under MIT and put it up on GitHub (https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness). I spun it up last night and spent a few hours with it. Here’s what I found. Wait, I should back up. … Read more