Recently, sources familiar with the matter revealed that the AI company DeepSeek is internally forming a new team called Harness, aiming to develop a code agent product directly competing with Anthropic's Claude Code. This information has been confirmed by DeepSeek senior researcher Chen Deli, who stated on social media that DeepSeek is fully committed to advancing the product and research of the Harness direction, in short, to launch DeepSeek Code Harness.

This recruitment is not just a regular job opening. DeepSeek has specifically recruited two key roles: Harness Product Manager and Harness R&D Engineer, with the work location set in Beijing. DeepSeek's Beijing office is located in Haidian District, where the surrounding environment is excellent, adjacent to renowned universities such as Peking University and Tsinghua University, seemingly providing a favorable soil for the team's innovative development.

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In the job posting, DeepSeek proposed a core formula: "Model + Harness = Agent". This indicates that DeepSeek will not rely solely on the model itself but will combine elements such as context management, tool calling, and task planning to form a complete agent workflow. This team will be responsible for transforming DeepSeek's cutting-edge model capabilities into leading agent products and will deeply participate in the entire development process.

DeepSeek, which has been focusing on the AI field, realizes that past single code capabilities cannot meet developers' needs. Therefore, DeepSeek hopes that the Harness team will bridge the gap between the model and real workflows. This shift is not just a simple product iteration but also makes the Agent product an essential part of model evolution, driving a genuine developer experience.

Additionally, DeepSeek has found that the developer community has already spontaneously built an open-source project called DeepSeek-TUI, which is a "DeepSeek version of Claude Code." This project shows that developers are urgently hoping for a DeepSeek code assistant that meets their needs. Therefore, DeepSeek urgently needs to launch an official Harness to seize this market opportunity and ensure its model better adapts to developers' working habits.

In conclusion, DeepSeek is committed to filling the critical link between the model and practical applications, so as to occupy a place in the competitive AI field.

Key points:

🚀 DeepSeek is forming the Harness team, aiming to develop a code agent product that competes with Claude Code.  

🔧 The recruitment includes a Harness Product Manager and R&D Engineer, with the work location being Beijing.