DeepSeek quietly drops autonomous coding agent prototype, Bloomberg picks it up instantly
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-01
DeepSeek has released a prototype of a more autonomous coding agent, seen as a direct challenge to Anthropic's popular Claude Code.
teortaxesTex notes how far DeepSeek has come: not long ago its models drew little interest, yet now a half-baked prototype from the harness team, dropped in a GitHub repo without any English announcement, gets instant Bloomberg coverage.
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