Pi is awesome!

Unfortunately I have to use Claude Code at work, and it is a very frustrating experience, I constantly find myself trying to bend it to my will. I sometimes suspect that my distaste for Claude Code is one of the reasons of my distaste for Claude as well.

Pi on the other hand is a joy to use. Top notch session and model management, excellent conversation tree/branching functionality, and it lives up to its philosophy of being meant to be adapted to your workflow.

I can't recommend it enough, especially if you use alternative LLMs instead of Claude.

The thing that freaks me out about Pi is it seems to have zero sandboxing or security guardrails unless you explicitly add them. I guess it's fine if you're only ever running inside a VM or a throwaway machine anyway.

The whole AGENTS vs CLAUDE md issue was bound to be resolved. If the models are getting smarter and harnesses getting better - how could you have a product so dumb that it ignores whatever skills, instructions, references, other things that are part of the folder context it is mounted in.

Having claude code ignore agents.md just made it seem dumb. At this point, you probably don't need either.

"longtime ... over a year ago" This time dilation is getting ridiculous.

For usage with open models, I'd highly recommend Swival as an alternative to Pi: https://swival.dev

bbapp is legitimately good too

> It seems like there isn’t someone high-up whose job is strictly to say “no” to these requests, which is incredibly important when it comes to product engineering

Ah, product management - we know so few of ye who know what you're doing.

I get 150 tokens/sec on my coding agent, if you are on a MacBook, thats with an M1

try kapitsa as the inference engine with pi as the harness

It works really well

Bro talks like an expert and got a point but still using gmail: calebdotsoftware@gmail.com, come on...