Above the Fog

Claude Code vs DeepSeek Harness

Claude Code and DeepSeek Harness side by side on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar, on Oct 29, 2026: Claude Code is 🚀 Rising with a hype score of 36 and DeepSeek Harness is 💤 Quiet with 23. The radar’s curated relations list them as competitors.

Data note: 7 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 22–Oct 28, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Nov 12.

At a glance

MeasureClaude CodeDeepSeek Harness
Stage🚀 Rising💤 Quiet
Hype score36.423.1
7-day change+29+2.6
In hype sinceOct 29, 2026not in hype now
Peak, 30 days56.9 on Oct 16, 202631.7 on Oct 20, 2026
Stories in 7 days62625
Share of voice, 7 days4.5%0.2%
Sources above normal3 of 192 of 18
Category🤖 Agents🤖 Agents

Hype score, last 30 days

Both hype scores by day, newest first; on the page’s chart, Claude Code is the solid line and DeepSeek Harness the dashed one.

DayClaude CodeDeepSeek Harness
Oct 29, 202636.423.1
Oct 28, 20263.511.6
Oct 27, 20262.79.9
Oct 26, 20261.49.5
Oct 25, 202602
Oct 24, 202629.8
Oct 23, 20265.19.8
Oct 22, 20267.320.5
Oct 21, 202615.910
Oct 20, 202638.631.7
Oct 19, 202649.419
Oct 18, 202625.617.2
Oct 17, 20263924.8
Oct 16, 202656.912.1
Oct 15, 202654.83.9
Oct 14, 202652.66.1
Oct 13, 202628.312.7
Oct 12, 202673
Oct 11, 202610.41.1
Oct 10, 20262.64.1
Oct 9, 202617.311.2
Oct 8, 202618.23.7
Oct 7, 202620.30
Oct 6, 20268.40
Oct 5, 20266.20.5
Oct 4, 20269.91.1
Oct 3, 202610.11.4
Oct 2, 20261.622.4
Oct 1, 202610.70
Sep 30, 202621.73.5

Shared themes

What the stories of both topics in the last 7 days are about, as classified by the Jev model (a story can carry several themes):

Claude Code: stories behind it

  1. My Claude Code now calls my phone when it needs me. No Twilio, no phone number, free — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Oct 28 · score 377 · 74 comments
  2. Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model — Hacker News (gist.github.com) · Oct 29 · score 572 · 232 comments
  3. Claude Code’s $100/month plan — 73% of my weekly limit gone in 2 days — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Oct 28 · score 82 · 147 comments
  4. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace — Hacker News (phorion.io) · Oct 30 · score 230 · 328 comments
  5. Asked Claude Code to find every secret on my laptop and it found 63 — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Oct 28 · score 109 · 45 comments

DeepSeek Harness: stories behind it

  1. DeepSeek V5 spotted in DeepSeek Harness tests — are we getting closer to a release? — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 436 · 26 comments
  2. deepseek-harness: Opensource AI Agent Harness [264k Stars] — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 28 · score 1 · 0 comments
  3. DeepSeek Harness is breaking Unity Projects — Reddit (r/DeepSeek) · Oct 30
  4. I Tested deepseek-harness — Here's What You Need to Know — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments
  5. I Tried deepseek-harness — Here's What You Need to Know — DEV Community (dev.to) (#ai) · Oct 29 · score 0 · 0 comments

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