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▶ 22:48 · $ANTHROPIC · $OPENAI · OpenAI's Codex harness uses distinct file-editing approach vs Anthropic
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Own Your Harness, Own Your Intelligence | Harrison Chase, LangChain

2026-08-13 · 5 company · 7 thematic
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harrison chase

Co-founded LangChain three years ago; the open-source framework has over a billion downloads and provides tools for building LLM applications, agents (LangGraph, Deep Agents), and observability/evaluation platform (LangSmith).

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“I think both OpenAI and Anthropic are getting really good at coding, but they've landed on different ways to kind of like edit files um that are like, you know, that are like actually pretty different.”
—harrison chase
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