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1. zxspectrum1982 · 1790944890 · focus · HN ↗

   Why does every lab producing an LLM want to have their own harness? Lock-in? Is there any other advantage for the lab?

   I'm using Cursor (it's the only way my company allows us to use Grok) and OpenChamber (when using GPT, Muse Spark and others) and I'm happy. If I were to use DeepSeek, I'd use it through OpenChamber too.

   * OpenChamber is a GUI for OpenCode.

   1. conception · 1790945845 · focus · HN ↗

      Telemetry/training data. Cursor didn’t get their own models from Project Gutenberg.
   2. api · 1790945989 · focus · HN ↗

      Same reason everything wants you to "install the app": to spy on you.

      I'm reluctant to run harnesses from US companies, and prefer to use them in a VM. No damn way I'm installing one from China.

      For coding I like to use Zed right now. Pretty solid integration of an AI harness and a good conventional code editor. Might give Pi another look.

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