https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/

This coding agent is minimal, and it completely changed how I used models and Claude's cli now feels like extremely slow bloat.

I'd not be surprised if you're right in that this is companies / management will prefer to "pay for a complete package" approach for a long while, but power-users should not care for the model providers.

I have like 100 lines of code to get me a tmux controls & semaphore_wait extension in the pi harness. That gave me a better orchestration scheme a month ago when I adopted it, than Claude has right now.

As far as I can tell, the more you try to train your model on your harness, the worse they get. Bitter lesson #2932.