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The AI Daily Brief · Sunday, June 28, 2026

Exploring AI Tooling: Experimenting with Harnesses and Plugins Suggested

The podcast encourages users to experiment with different AI development tools like Claude code and Codex by building the same project in each. It also highlights the importance of exploring available plugins for these tools to enhance interaction and functionality, suggesting this is a good time to experiment given the current pause in new model releases.

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But for those of you who really want a very broad-based understanding, and who want to be able to use all the tools that they can in any given time, I think it is worthwhile to actually run the experiment where you build the same project within both tools, comparing the interfaces, the way that it interacts with tools and context, the feel of the models underneath, to decide which of these is better for you, or in what context one or the other is better for you.
I think this is a really good moment, as simple as it seems, to go explore the plugins that are actually available and relevant for whatever role you are, and see how they might change the way that you interact with Claude code or whatever tool you're using.
Heard on The AI Daily Brief — “The Capability Overhang Playbook, published Sunday, June 28, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Exploring AI Tooling: Experimenting with Harnesses and Plugins Suggested — Heardvine