I just discovered Pi Coding Agent and found that it's lean System Prompt + a tuned CLAUDE.md brought back a lot of the intelligence that Opus seemed to lose over the last month.

Sucks to be pushed back to Claude Code with opaque system behavior and inconsistency. I bet many would rather pay more for stability than less for gambling on the model intelligence.

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chatmasta 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

We use Pi at work (where we pay per token) and I’d love to use it personally too. From what I’ve read, nobody has been banned for using Pi yet… I wonder if Anthropic minds this much as long as it’s still human usage, or if they’re mostly focused on stamping out the autonomous harnesses. Unfortunately Pi is also what OpenClaw uses so it could easily get swept up in the enforcement attention.

Or maybe I’ll just get a Codex subscription instead. OpenAI has semi-officially blessed usage of third party harnesses, right?

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nerdix 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It appears that OpenAI has blessed third party harnesses. I know they officially support OpenCode and they have this on their developer portal:

"Developers should code in the tools they prefer, whether that's Codex, OpenCode, Cline, pi, OpenClaw, or something else, and this program supports that work."

https://developers.openai.com/community/codex-for-oss

Obviously, the context is that OpenAI is telling open source developers who are using free subscriptions/tokens from the Codex for Open Source program that they can use any harness they want. But it would be strange for that to not extend to paying subscribers.

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mirashii 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They have, but they also just announced this week that for business and enterprise plans, they’re switching from quotas for codex to token use based pricing, and I would expect that to eventually propagate to all their plans for all the same reasons.

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		I’d be surprised if that propagated to personal subscription plans, simply because it would put them at a huge competitive disadvantage against Anthropic, which they’ve already signaled they care about by saying they allow third-party harnesses. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they required third-party harnesses to use per-token billing, since that’d put them on par with Anthropic.

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jen20 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can still use it with an OpenAI subscription (for now at least), and the models aren't substantially worse.

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j45 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder if there's a way to bring some of what Pi Coding Agent has to claude code itself.

It seems that installing claude code directly from npm shields from some of the current issues.