Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
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
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 … Read more
I’ve been using AI coding assistants for a while now. Not because I can’t write code without them — I can. But because they save me time. And time is the one thing I never have enough of. I started with Cursor. Then I tried Trae. Then Claude Code showed up and everyone lost their … Read more
I’ve been using OpenCode for about six months now. Started out just treating it like a chat box. Took a while to figure out what actually works. The default mode is Build. You say something, it starts changing code. Problem is, most of the time I don’t know exactly what I want yet. So I … Read more
I’ve been watching the Vibe Coding hype cycle play out for over a year now, and honestly? I’m relieved it’s fading. When it first dropped, my feed was flooded with “AI coding is the new era” posts. People were building full websites without writing a single line of code. Non-programmers shipped apps in two hours. … 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
Google just announced they’re killing three Gmail features that a lot of people rely on. Starting January 2027, you won’t be able to send emails from a Yahoo or Outlook address through your Gmail account anymore. The web version of POP fetching is going away too. And Gmailify—the thing that lets Gmail’s spam filters work … Read more
Google just confirmed what we all suspected. Assistant is officially going away on mobile devices starting September 4. I got the email last week. The wording was polite but firm. Starting September 4, they’re systematically removing Assistant access from Android phones and tablets. The rollout takes a few weeks, so don’t panic if yours still … Read more
Apple’s about to raise the price of the iPhone 17 lineup. Maybe as soon as August 10. That’s the word from supply chain chatter, and honestly, it’s not that surprising. Memory chip costs have been climbing for months, and Apple already bumped up prices on most of its other hardware back in late June. The … Read more