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Perplexity Portable Computer on DGX Spark: Fully Local AI Agents, Explained

Perplexity Portable Computer on DGX Spark: Fully Local AI Agents, Explained

Perplexity Portable Computer runs the entire agent stack: orchestrator, models, harness, and sandbox, locally on NVIDIA DGX Spark with zero per-token costs. What ships, what the benchmarks say, and who should run it.

26 August 202610 min read
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Why DeepSeek Harness Is the New Meta for AI Agents

Why DeepSeek Harness Is the New Meta for AI Agents

DeepSeek Harness hit 183K GitHub stars in 9 days, 100K in two days at 2,100 stars per hour, with 10,000+ community plugins. Why dsh is the OpenClaw moment all over again, one level deeper: the harness, not the model, is the product.

22 August 20268 min read
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DeepSeek V4-Flash-Vision-Exp: Multimodal Agents Near Opus 4.8 at V4 Flash Prices

DeepSeek V4-Flash-Vision-Exp: Multimodal Agents Near Opus 4.8 at V4 Flash Prices

DeepSeek's experimental V4-Flash-Vision-Exp adds vision to the bargain agent model: 83.9 Terminal Bench 2.1, 59.3 DeepSWE, close to Opus 4.8 on multimodal agent benchmarks, same price as V4 Flash. Benchmarks, API usage, image billing and dsh harness 0.1.1 support explained.

21 August 20269 min read
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I Built a Fireflies.ai Clone With the dsh Harness: 109 Agent Steps at 48 tok/s on DeepSeek V4 Flash

I Built a Fireflies.ai Clone With the dsh Harness: 109 Agent Steps at 48 tok/s on DeepSeek V4 Flash

Personal experience running DeepSeek's dsh harness: one prompt, 109 agent steps, 48 tok/s on V4 Flash 0731, a working Fireflies.ai clone plugin, and the approval-gate behaviour that earned my trust. Includes session metrics, cost math, V4 Flash vs Opus comparison and secure VPS + Tailscale self-hosting steps.

21 August 202613 min read
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AI for Fitout and Interior Construction Companies in Australia: 2026 Guide

AI for Fitout and Interior Construction Companies in Australia: 2026 Guide

AI for Australian fitout companies: archive analysis, BoQ generation from drawings, material cost tracking. Includes a real $6,000 archive analysis scoped for a 65-staff firm. Pricing from $3,000.

20 August 202612 min read
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AI for Builders and Construction Companies in Australia: 2026 Practical Guide

AI for Builders and Construction Companies in Australia: 2026 Practical Guide

How Australian builders use AI for plan reading, takeoffs, quoting and compliance. We tested 10 vision models on real plans: 4 of 6 within 10% accuracy at $15 per plan set. Pricing included.

20 August 202613 min read
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AI for Golf Club Pro Shops and Retail Operations in Australia

AI for Golf Club Pro Shops and Retail Operations in Australia

Practical AI for Australian golf pro shops: inventory forecasting, member purchase analysis and automated communications. Setup from $500 to $5,000, with a real 200+ store training case study.

20 August 202611 min read
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TrueForge vs DeepSeek Harness vs Claude Managed Agents: 2026 Comparison

TrueForge vs DeepSeek Harness vs Claude Managed Agents: 2026 Comparison

TrueFoundry's open-source TrueForge harness claims up to 75% cheaper agent runs than Claude Managed Agents. We break down the benchmark, compare it with DeepSeek Harness, Codex CLI and deepagents, and explain what it means for businesses choosing agent infrastructure.

20 August 202615 min read
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DeepSeek Harness: Why 95,000 GitHub Stars in 2 Days Matters

DeepSeek Harness: Why 95,000 GitHub Stars in 2 Days Matters

DeepSeek Harness (dsh) hit 95,000 GitHub stars in 2 days with its everything-is-a-plugin agent architecture. We installed it, benchmarked the claims and explain what it means for teams choosing agent infrastructure.

20 August 202620 min read
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