points by alexfortin 3 days ago | 0 comments
I disagree. I've tried Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and Pi, and I _strongly_ prefer Pi.
I suppose it truly boils down to personal taste? My take[0] on AI including harnesses.
[0]: https://a.l3x.in/ai
[–] ffsm8 3 days ago
[–] alexfortin 2 days ago
Actually the main reason to use Pi is because it's lean and doesn't pollute the context with all sorts of noise like most of the $corporate agents do.
A nice benefit of going minimal with coding agents is that you might find out you don't need to do any hand holding because nowadays models are perfectly capable of reaching out for tools etc and make you happy without any extras required. In my experiece so far less truly is more when talking about agents.
If you drew a venn diagram of their prospective users, the overlap ain't gonna be big. I get that they're both harnesses, but claude is clearly trying to optimize for the agentic development loop, while piagent is more about hand holding - unless you add the agentic features yourself (which is pretty easy, but again completely different target audience to cc).