DeepSeek Harness is the best mobile agent setup right now

2026-08-26 10:58

DeepSeek Harness is the best mobile agent setup right now I'm probably switching from Pi to DSH. Main reason: I don't want to carry a laptop around anymore. DSH and Pi are similar: two-layer loop, everything's a plugin, migration should be painless. Old remote setup was Tailscale + tmux + Termius + Claude Code on a server. It worked, but the mobile terminal was painful for both commands and file transfers. DSH's web UI just fits mobile. No IDE bloat. Sessions live in the browser, so a disconnect doesn't kill your task. Need to show the agent an image? Write an upload plugin and send it from the web. One real downside: DSH's security model doesn't allow remote access, so you have to patch the source to expose the web UI through your tunnel. It's still beta, so I'm betting the team adds proper remote support eventually.

agent, server included.

Yesterday Grok bot got pushed down to SuperGrok Plus. Today it dropped again to SuperGrok. So buying SuperGrok gets you Grok bot + a cloud server on top. Asked about the bot's hardware. 16GB RAM. Heavy gets 128GB. Bot quota doesn't seem to share with Build either. Mine hit the weekly cap, but the bot still chats.

2026-08-27

DeepSeek hiked prices 12x (that's +1100%) after Aug 16

. This past week it cost me over ¥1,000, and ds is still mostly my fallback. I go through a lot of tokens, but across every model I'm pushing 1B+ a week. I'm mostly coding, though this applies elsewhere. Don't run everything through one model. Web lookups and local search go to free or cheap ones. I only pull the top tier for planning, big decisions, and the parts that actually hurt. So at minimum two tiers: a top sub like ChatGPT or Grok, plus a cheap/free model. Hy3 handles the chores. What I run now: ChatGPT + Grok dual sub for the heavy lifting; commandcode's $1 plan to flip between top and cheap on demand; a pool of 50 IPs cycling opencode's hy3-free (each IP gets free daily quota, no login); and workbuddy's daily check-in for points I burn on cheap hy3 calls. It's a stupid amount of plumbing for one week of bills. The ¥1,000 stung enough that I sat down and built it.

2026-08-25

Claude appeal rejected.

Won't refund the subscription either. I'm half convinced the appeal email is itself phishing, because I'm pretty sure they log the IP. DHH came to Shenzhen recently and showed how he uses Claude Code over there. That's the safest way now, honestly: run Claude Code on an overseas machine, connect through Tailscale, never use it locally. So I need to rent an overseas box with a residential IP, and register and log into Claude there.

2026-11-14

Sharing my current mobile only workflow.

Until late September it was the usual setup: parked in front of my laptop, terminal open, bossing pi around, fanning out subagents, then eyeballing diffs myself and filing the PR. Glued to the chair all day, every day. Late September I moved the whole thing to my phone, Hermes runs the show, pi takes the orders. My back is very grateful. Three weeks in, still no regrets. Stack: Hermes on flagship brains (gpt-6-astra / opus-5.5), pi on mid-tier (ds-v4.1-flash / sonnet / terra) with as few plugins as possible, the two talking over a2a. Hermes reads the issues, slices them into small tasks, spins up a worktree for each one, and dispatches a pi into it. When a pi finishes it pings Hermes, who decides: ship the PR or bounce it back for rework. I get back from a full day of being a tourist, or just wake up, and a dozen PRs are sitting there done. Pretty sweet. The catch is how black-box the whole thing is. My emotional arc has been a rerun of early vibe coding, except back then I at least read the diffs. Now even that goes to a flagship model. Boxes all the way down. If you don't have data anxiety, grok-bot and chatgpt-dot basically ship this out of the box, grok-cli and codex built in, native agent-to-agent comms. Downside: your code lives on their servers, everything's moderated, and one ban takes it all with it.

2026-11-14