DeepSeek Harness

“it submits very very many input tokens against the LLM endpoint”

“somehow just by using it, without any parameter changes, the model feels even more intelligent”

“Core exposes well defined extension seams, you don't need to patch those core plugins at all.”

“their approaches are generally leaning on gathering as much user data as possible”

“Why else would they offer their own harness except to steal your data?”

“the problem with "Everything Is A Plugin" is that when this includes core functionality, you still have to maintain downstream patches”

“I find it hilarious that all the AI harnesses are Electron crap.”

“it gives you good overall observabiity, over your entire context”

“my model sucks but it does so cheaper than anybody else”

“A true direct native distillation. The very cutting edge of AI.”

“It uses an append-only design for the context which rules out all kinds of cache-invalidation bugs”

“better this than three-letter agencies from some nazi warmongering alternative”

“Deepseek harness seems good but this thread feels astroturfy”

“suck in all of your laptop and everything else from your network”

“I still think it's really cool, and I've been thinking of trying to take ideas from it”

“particularly good observability (the ability to see the full content of every prompt and response and tool call)”

“that's the most exciting thing about this -- not just yet another harness”

“it built a really nice app from 30 news sources via rss feeds for less than 50 cents”

“it's a beast. The same great harness as before but now is an app you just click on your dock to run”

“the result is spectacular and I would never had done it in ten lifetimes”

“Minutes later a fully functioning product that I run, check it complies with the initial plan and then ask for minor cosmetic changes”

“I occasionally use dedicated harnesses (DeepSeek harness, Codex, etc) because they have better tools and outcomes than VSCode's built-in harness”

“opencode pushes CPU usage to very high which has NOT happened with DeepSeek harness even once”

“You won't believe the productivity gains for just pennies”

“it's rather mind blowing that these can do actual work and quickly”

“now with the deepseek harness, I don't even miss Claude Code”

“Codex, Pi, OpenCode, DeepSeek's harness all great harnesses with zero bullshit or drama.”

“I would be happier if it wasn't javascript-based, but it's open source”

“supposedly has nice plugin system which others do mostly lack”

“It's utilized and maintained by a large lab dedicated to open source AI.”

“it works with many different providers out of the box and that's a great thing”

“It sounds like the DeepSeek system won't need that, which is useful.”

“the cross-plugin dependency injection and resolution i'm not so sure about”

“I'm glad they're doing this also and that more people are adopting it.”

“it works as expected, no complains, lots to celebrate, being version 0.1 there is room for more surprises but right now it's the perfect tool”

“It's useful logs which i think is an important distinction.”

“It's modular by default so you can experiment freely, in-session.”

“If everything is a plugin it means plugins can do everything.”

“Every product relying on "community plugins" for their features implies it works fine the 6 first months, then it's a nightmare”

“it’s big idea is also to support dependency injection style explicit linkage between dynamically added components”