311 - Self learning harnesses are here

Claude Code and Codex have been the mainstay agent harnesses, with OpenCode and Pi as the popular open-source alternatives. But two new entries are pushing what a harness even is: DeepSeek's Cordis kernel, where everything — down to the agent loop itself — is a plugin you can hot-swap at runtime, and Prime Agent, an RLM-based harness that treats sub-agents and context as function calls in a live REPL. We break down what actually makes each one different.

Full shownotes: https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/311