DeepSeek's answer to Claude Code is almost here. Screenshots of a group chat shared online show the DeepSeek Harness team plans to ship its first Harness product alongside the official release of V4. Harness is a coding-agent product that lets the model read and write files, call tools, execute commands, and keep working through engineering tasks — internally, it's positioned against Claude Code.
DeepSeek previously said V4's stable release would land in mid-July, with peak/off-peak pricing going live at the same time. It's now July 20, and that window has come and gone. If the plan hasn't shifted again, V4 and Harness…