articleAI Local4 Sept 2026

I’m running an Opus-level coding agent locally at nearly 2x Claude Opus speed, for free.

Nov 2025 was a tipping point for AI coding with commercial frontier models. Aug 2026 is the beginning of the same thing for local AI. Pretty darned exciting.

Julian Harris
ailocal.substack.com
articleStencil2 Sept 2026

The Harness Playbook

Model the agentic harness like a game engine and most of its hard problems — durable state, tools, configuration, the TUI, inference — collapse into ones other people already solved.

Can Bölük
stencil.so
articleEarendil20 Aug 2026

What is a Harness?

An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.

earendil.com
articleThe Cloudflare Blog20 Apr 2026

Orchestrating AI Code Review at scale

Learn about how we built a CI-native AI code reviewer using OpenCode that helps our engineers ship better, safer code.

Ryan Skidmore
blog.cloudflare.com

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