Developer notes DeepSeek's open source harness mirrors their own project
kshivang · reddit · 2026-08-21
A developer expressed a mix of emotions after DeepSeek released an open source 'harness' project that functions almost identically to a tool they have been building for 'BossConsole' over the past nine months. Despite the gut punch of seeing a fast-growing GitHub repo replicate their work, they acknowledged that at least the good idea is winning, even if their specific implementation isn't.
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