#01 - Jul 15, 2026
State of AI: The Harness Bash Gambit
Just Bash at Brex, CLI Harnesses review, Chess in AI era
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Our agent-swarm https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm crossed 600 stars, and 50 daily active swarms around the globe (we know of). Here's what else happened. ---------------------------------------- The Harness Competency Paradox tl;dr: Your team is using Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or whatever they want. Whatever they want!? State of CLI Coding Agents https://blog.arcbjorn.com/state-of-cli-coding-agents-2026?utm_source=tldrdev is a satisfying deep dive into the evolution of our CLIs during the past 3 years. It declares the winners are: * Claude Code. The best UX, and they know it. They are so sure about it that they are willing to charge and lock you in Apple style. I use Android devices. You do you. * Codex. A similar set of functionalities, and ever improving feature parity, and it’s open source. This last part is key. Nowadays adapting a harness is cheap, closed source makes something cheap impossible. They don’t. * Oh-my-pi. The article leans strong on why Omp is a favorite: more features. 2 things that we actually believe are key: AST & Task routing. This means less token consumption, and faster results. We believe everyone will start adding these layers soon, and Omp should keep running ahead. The interesting bit here is how the industry evolved in the past 3 years. No mention of coding agents, e.g. Devin, or other tools meant to take over your dev SDLC. That’s telling. → Adopt. You don’t need to read the whole article, just this table https://blog.arcbjorn.com/state-of-cli-coding-agents-2026?utm_source=tldrdev#feature-leaders. Each row should highlight an area in which you may want to improve. Each column will give you ideas on where to look ---------------------------------------- Jus’ Bash. tl;dr: 3 lessons from Brex migrating their agents from Docker to just-bash. Simple solutions for complex problems is a mantra some people forget, just-bash reminded Brex https://x.com/brexHQ/status/2077063945085415655 of 3 rules you must follow in the AI Native era. * Scale. Their results benefit from just-bash not after 10 line items, but after 1000s. That’s when their context becomes tricky. And actually, that’s when you see the real benefit. Many early tech individuals will think that “works for me” is still valid in a Pareto-like fashion. It’s not. * Atomicity. The power Brex discovered with just-bash is the agent native architecture Every.to https://every.to/guides/agent-native has been preaching for months now. Granular & composable commands allow your agents to develop a myriad of unexpected solutions. I’m sure Peano and Gödel may be having a conversation about that. * Compounding. At the end they reflect on how looking at the traces they generated new tools/scripts/short-cuts for repeated actions. That is how your system learns and avoids spending infinite tokens. → Adopt. We’ve been doing this in the swarm https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-swarm for a while, just copy it. Run us over! ---------------------------------------- The Orangutan Opening tl;dr: Anish Giri is a controversial figure, and they reflect on how chess works nowadays. You can see how the study of the game has shifted https://x.com/anishgiri/status/2075935342327144888. In his very own words: Gotcha! https://x.com/anishgiri/status/2075950714665251315/photo/1 → Challenge. If it resonates, it’s twice as dangerous. Trust is built through human interaction, and honest feedback. Think how to have a 30 min call with someone else, before blindly agreeing online… ---------------------------------------- Gotcha! 15-minutes https://calendar.app.google/jkGPyw8aTrEMH1NQ8 is enough. Or keep reading newsletters https://www.desplega.sh/newsletters. Your call. Best, ---------------------------------------- Sent with ❤ by Desplega Labs http://desplega.sh/ from Barcelona unsubscribe .