Agreed - They are definitely doing this price change ahead of the Steam Machine on purpose, to anchor that price better.
That said there is hope for the Steam Machine to at least be similarly priced. I'd expect the COGS to come in cheaper than the deck because it doesn't have a screen, battery, joysticks etc and it's likely easier to assemble in general
If I didn't love my Steam Deck I would consider re-selling it for profit. This feels like the same thing that happened to used car resale prices during covid. For a year or two you could sell the used car you just bought for a profit
This happened to me recently with a few providers. Their billing teams got aggressive and I said fuck it and AI coded a replacement in a few nights/weekends. For me it was: Temporal, Zapier and DocuSign
I strongly believe the build/buy equation is much different in 2026 than it was in 2024
Yeah, this is the absolute last thing I'd vibecode. This is one step above sending your LLM to represent you in front of a court when you're accused of murder.
Totally in agreement with you and the previous commenter. It's not a full re-write. I took an open source project (DocuSeal) and customized it for our needs
That said - Docusign has a moat because people are afraid (and CYA) by using them instead of anything else. To make an eSignature legal isn't really that complex, you just need hash based attribution, some timestamps and some ToS.
Replacing Docusign with something else is no where close to having an AI represent you in court
Hi - I built Harness [1] as a reaction to the closed source IDEs that keep popping up (Antigravity/Conductor/Cursor). I wanted something better than those that is also community supported.
Harness is an agent first IDE built around git worktrees. It's designed to make it easy to organize a bunch of Claude Code sessions for all the different projects you are tackling right now
It supports macOS and Linux. And experimentally it allows separating your frontend & backend so that the agent runtimes can live in a dev box while the UI can run on your laptop.
Remote dev box is brand new in the last release so let me know if it works... happy to help you set it up (I personally run w/remote dev box) shoot me an email
looks awesome! very interesting how similar these tools all look. i do think we're at an intermediate state here with the current UI where it doesn't scale as well for the future where triggering agents and review becomes much more important than the writing code part.
And headless server support! I have gotten a lot of request to let people run the agent on a separate dev box (in the cloud or some pc gathering dust in the corner). The frontend/backend are decoupled so you can run the agents on a totally separate machine than the GUI is running.
If you have any other problems/concerns/issues/suggestions/etc, reach out!
I am building an Agent IDE called Harness. It is somewhat inspired by the previous version of antigravity (and Conductor, and a few others). But with a core goal being open source & hackability.
It's centered around git worktrees. The goal is to organize all your AI sessions into somewhat logical places and make it easy to context switch. The secondary goal is to remove the need to open a separate code editor anytime you want to look at a file (We have a built in file editor powered by Monaco [vscodes editor])
Looks like Pi does do it (I was not an aware of Pi before now). It's obvious the industry is standardizing around git worktrees + agents, it's just about which tool has your favorite ergonomics at this point.
For me I liked the ergonomics of a few other tools, but none of them were exactly what I wanted so I made my own. And, I kept it open source so anyone can tweak the ergonomics to be what they like
I get that they have to make changes to the google search box because so many people are just using ChatGPT/Cluade to answer questions instead of google.
However, I specifically use Google (or DDG) when the LLMs are failing me. When I want "research something on my own" because the LLM is giving me garbage, or untrustworthy information. If Google completely replaces their search box my Google usage will go down even further.
I don't plan to use Google's LLM when Cluade is just better. Now that Google's search features are gone (or going away) I no longer have any reason to turn to them at all
Agreed, but I think that might be our tech bubble. My non-tech family still just types searches in the URL bar of their browser first, and I'm sure others just have google as their browser homepage. I assume that's actually a pretty common use-case for most non-tech users.
Totally agreed, and that's exactly why I built harness! If you use just raw worktrees you can get lost super quickly because there's just things happening all over the place
Harness solves this by putting the status of the agent front and center (or rather on the left vertical tab bar). Each worktree is a tab, the icon shows you if the agent is working (green means working, yellow means waiting on you, red means waiting on a permission prompt). The goal is that all work for a worktree is in one mental space, so you can easily review the agent's work (reviews built in, integrated browsers sorted by worktree, etc)
I am in a situation where every sub-folder has its own language server settings, lint settings, etc. VSCode (and forks) can handle this by creating a workspace, adding each folder to the workspace, and having a separate .vscode per-folder. I haven't figured out how to do the same with Zed.
That said there is hope for the Steam Machine to at least be similarly priced. I'd expect the COGS to come in cheaper than the deck because it doesn't have a screen, battery, joysticks etc and it's likely easier to assemble in general
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