💭 I Smell Emacs and Smalltalk on DSH (DeepSeek Harness)

Last week, Deepseek released DSH, an agent harness with very interesting approach.
The same pitch used by VS Code and Eclipse RPC (2024): “everything is a plugin” but this time it’s a bit different. Even the agent loop itself is a plugin.

In practice, you extend the tool by just prompting. (Reminds me of an old post of mine where I said that Emacs is like a modern “Magic Lamp”)
It allows maximum customizability and also opens many possibilities.
In the official article, they showcased adding snake game to the main interface. Pretty cool!

Around the same time, I spent a little time playing with the pi-coding-agent on Emacs and was thinking that now if I want, I probably could extend Emacs indefinitely by just prompting.

Weird synchronicity.

Anyway, here are some useful links if you want to know more:

• DSH announcement
• deepseek-harness repo
• Cordis paper — A Programming Paradigm for Spatiotemporal Composability
• pi-coding-agent.el — the Emacs frontend I was playing with