Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
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 the … 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 point … 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. What’s … Read more
Honestly? I didn’t see this coming. DeepSeek has been killing it on the model side for a while now. Cheap API, solid performance, open weights. They’ve been the budget champ for developers who don’t want to burn cash on OpenAI or Claude. But yesterday they dropped something different. Not a model. Not a price cut. … Read more
A screenshot started making the rounds in AI circles over the past couple of days. It shows a recruitment notice for a closed beta of something called DeepSeek Harness. According to the image, the tool is set to begin internal testing later this week. The first batch of users will be selected from small private … Read more
The hype around Prime Agent is getting ridiculous. People are calling it the next step toward AGI. Some claim that with Opus 5 it scores 95.5 percent on ARC-AGI-3, beating the human expert baseline of 95.4 percent. That is a big number. But I kept reading the same talking points everywhere, RLM, Continual Harness, prompt-as-a-variable, … Read more
On August 6, DeepSeek posted a short announcement that sent ripples through the developer community: they are planning a significant price increase for their API. No numbers. Just a warning that the hike is coming, and that it is going to be large. I was not surprised. Pricing is not the only thing shifting. WorkBuddy … Read more