Claude Code · DeepSeek · Claude · Anthropic · Codex · China · Decrypt
Agentic coding tools—programs that don't suggest a line of code but autonomously plan, write, test
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Anthropic's Claude Code is a command-line tool that lets developers hand off complex engineering tasks to an AI that keeps working without constant hand-holding.
Key facts
- Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic's flagship, runs at $15 per million input tokens
- When it released R1 in January 2025, the reasoning model wiped nearly $600 billion from Nvidia's market cap in a single day—because it matched OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost
- The V4 lineup, released on April 24, comes in two flavors
- DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab born out of quantitative investment firm High-Flyer, is forming a new team to build "Code Harness"—an agentic coding tool that would compete directly with Anthropic's
Summary
DeepSeek is recruiting a "Code Harness" team in Beijing to build a native agentic coding tool—a direct rival to Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. DeepSeek V4 already integrates natively with Claude Code, making this a move to own the full agentic stack rather than supply the model underneath it. V4 Flash runs at $0.14 per million input tokens—up to 100x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7—giving any DeepSeek-native harness an immediate, structural price advantage. DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab born out of quantitative investment firm High-Flyer, is forming a new team to build "Code Harness"—an agentic coding tool that would compete directly with Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex. Sadly for Western devs praising the remote work gospel, the company requires being based in the capital of China specifically.