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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600817
My reading of that isn't that the harness matters so much as the overall platform environment that agents operate in and the approach taken by the team. > Before Blitzy starts any work on code generation, the platform launches collaborative agents to deeply analyze the repository – mapping dependencies, understanding conventions, and capturing domain logic. This documentation process can take hours or days. When prom…
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#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
My reading of that isn't that the harness matters so much as the overall platform environment that agents operate in and the approach taken by the team. > Before Blitzy starts any work on code generation, the platform launches collaborative agents to deeply analyze the repository – mapping dependencies, understanding conventions, and capturing domain logic. This documentation process can take hours or days. When prom…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691481
What exactly are you pointing out? I read the link and the linked thread and it's not clear what position is being presented.
I don't see evidence that the harness -- rather than the approach to information indexing and agent tooling -- makes much of a difference.
You can make a case "this harness bakes X in" (or in the case of pi "this harness bakes nothing in; you choose your own adventure"), but at the end of the day, skills are just markdown files and CLIs and shell scripts can be used by any harness; they are portable. CC allows override of the system prompt[0] and I would guess most harnesses have similar facilities. I don't see how the harness is going to be the bigger impact versus the configured tooling (skills, scripts, plugins).
The extraordinary claim here is that if I configured pi and CC, Codex, etc. with the same system prompt, same tools, same skills, that pi would outperform CC, Codex. That's what it means to say the harness matters. That just doesn't seem right; rather its the configuration of tools, skills, and default prompt that matters.
[0] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/cli-reference#system-prompt-...
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#173Well deserved, Good luck Mario!
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Pi is a coding agent harness, like Claude Code, but significantly better and more elegant. Here is a good post describing it: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/ I switched a few months ago and have not looked back. Unfortunately Anthropic blocked access from Claude Subscription users today, but that's a different story.
I've been using oh-my-pi, for the simple (and possibly naive/stubborn) reason that it doesn't try to get me to install it as global npm dependency in /usr. I am not a web developer, I don't need npm and I don't want it clobbering my /usr (which is immutable on many modern distro's anyway). Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in the project to me. oh-my-pi's installer installs a bun bundled binary in my users .local fo…
I use mise to install it in a manageadble way (and basically everything else on my computer).
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#175Why does everything have to be named after Lord of the bloody Rings
At least its this and not a book i actually care about. I shudder to think of a world where all the tech companies are called like 'Ghola', 'Giedi Prime', 'Heighliner', 'Harkonnen' etc
If the "launching soon" on tleilaxu.com is to be believed (unlikely), you might find yourself in that world. It'd certainly be a compelling name for a biotech company, although I'd find a company with that name a very troubling sign.
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#176I read most of the post, went to the linked project and still don't have an idea what this is about.
Pi is a coding agent harness, like Claude Code, but significantly better and more elegant. Here is a good post describing it: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/ I switched a few months ago and have not looked back. Unfortunately Anthropic blocked access from Claude Subscription users today, but that's a different story.
Now which is the best alternative?
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pi is a coding agent harness, like Claude Code, but significantly better and more elegant. Here is a good post describing it: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/ I switched a few months ago and have not looked back. Unfortunately Anthropic blocked access from Claude Subscription users today, but that's a different story.
> significantly better and more elegant. Can you please give us concrete reasons that make Pi better than Claude Code for you? And what model are you using for it since Claude is not available.
> Can you please give us concrete reasons that make Pi better than Claude Code for you?
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I value good architecture and elegance for aesthetic and maintainability reasons, the MIT license for future-proofness.
Claude Code has been steadily getting worse, it's a steaming pile of vibe-coded bloat and I don't foresee good future for the CC agent. Why would I use it?
There are many people who choose their tools using more criteria than just "how good is the immediate output now".
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691481
What exactly are you pointing out? I read the link and the linked thread and it's not clear what position is being presented. I don't see evidence that the harness -- rather than the approach to information indexing and agent tooling -- makes much of a difference. You can make a case "this harness bakes X in" (or in the case of pi "this harness bakes nothing in; you choose your own adventure"), but at the end of the…
My point is pi-coding-agent [1] is a very well designed and implemented open source project that we all can learn from as software engineers. His blog post about his decision making [2] is also very well written.
I should've given original links instead of noisy HN threads.
[1] https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/blob/main/packages/codin...
[2] https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/
pi-conding-agent itself is not a product yet and it won't have much value to end users other than those using the products built on top of it.
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#179Is this a good time to tell you guys that there are many more alternatives, like my very own https://maki.sh ? Shameless plug, yes, but it's free, so I think it's fair :)
This looks cool.
Does it support working with local models?