Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi

andsoitis

> Someone at Anthropic must’ve caught wind… just a day after making my decision, they announced Claude Code would finally start supporting AGENTS.md files in an effort to get me to stay. Forgive me for asking if I should know, but who is the author? Is he famous?

harrisonjackson

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.

komali2

Anecdotally I run semi nightly harness and local model test runs, and opencode consistently outperforms ohmypi on various code bench tasks. Note though that this for local models that can run on a 5090, so, kinda dumb models with a small context window. Also they might perform differently on a custom pi setup rather than the very feature rich ohmypi. Mostly the runs just cause me to get decision fatigue so I typically just use opencode and let a frontier model choose whatever cheaper models it wants to orchestrate with, so long as it's one that's not on the same token budget. P.S. I'd always wondered who it was that got caleb.software before I could... Outshot in a western duel!

yieldcrv

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

justauserid

> having a ton of CLAUDE.md files scattered about various GitHub hobby repos is great guerrilla marketing Their real marketing comes/came from https://github.com/claude phenomenon. Irrespective of what underlying model you are using the claude code harness just sticks this github user as git commit author and then you have to make an effort to remove it. That is just odd.

aeon_ai

> 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.

rudedogg

Is using Codex through Pi allowed? I've been a Claude user, but a lot of the things mentioned bother me as well. I see it constantly make mistakes due to (simple) shell aliases, etc.. Not sure I'll actually switch but I'm curious. I've thought about trying to build my own harness and use Codex usage to work through it without spending a fortune on credits.

jMyles

I mean... sure, yeah. But this feels like six weeks (or more) out-of-date. And so it is - from mid-September. And I know that observing such a thing sounds bizarre and teenage, but that's kind of a long time right now; we're at a moment in history when things are moving fast. We're not really fully ready for the traffic TBH, but for those who few of you choose to click, this is what we've been doing with pi lately: https://magenta.cryptograss.live/

sigttou

Pi has been my goto agent for several months now, the project is great and basically runs everywhere. If you like Pi, I suggest taking a look at Deepseek Harness too. For those using Claude, there's pi-claude-code[0] which is currently still the way to use Ant subs in Pi. [0] https://github.com/earendil-works/pi-claude-code

samayashar

I think Anthropic is working on allowing AGENTS.md files as well. However, Claude.md files take precedence if present. If not, you fall back to AGENTS.md.

O_H_E

> At the time of writing, there have been 244 releases to Claude Code this year; over 3/4 of these changed the system prompt or tool descriptions. ooof, that is a lot! And we're supposed to believe them and start one-shotting our projects...

alfiedotwtf

Pi is awesome until compaction hits. I think one in every two compactions it’s failed on me ie didn’t know how to continue :(

siraben

I've been daily driving Pi for over a month now and never looking back. The latest crop of frontier models have really complex bash calls, so I've written an extension that rewrites them into plain English while still making them easy to reveal in full, unlike some harnesses which seem to try to hide this from the user which is pretty irresponsible IMO.[0] [0] https://github.com/siraben/pi-tool-summaries

sexy_seedbox

Switched to DeepSeek Harness recently, their new Creator Mode is amazing: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSeek/s/sxg7aAM6rS