pi is awesome, quite possibly the best OSS tool out there. You should definitely give it a shot if it fits your stack. zot has become my daily driver. I didnt build zot to compete. I built it to really get a feel for how harnesses work, and I do it with Go simply because I love the language. More on that here: https://www.patriceckhart.com/blog/posts/2026-04-23/why-i-bu...

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hydra-f 15 hours ago | parent [-]

What makes pi so awesome? It feels as though the whole thing is held together with tape. Poor performance, poor UX. Security is an afterthought. Not that versatile (as of yet). You certainly are better off writing your own personal harness.

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patriceckhart 15 hours ago | parent [-]

pi is extensible at every turn. thats what makes it special. zot is more limited there.

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hydra-f 15 hours ago | parent [-]

Extensibility has a cost which affects all my earlier points. Pi is fine for testing things you might include in your harness, but that's where I would draw the line

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patriceckhart 14 hours ago | parent [-]

You rocking your own harness? Public by any chance? If so, mind if I take a look?

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hydra-f 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not yet. I am slowly gathering resources for it, mapping out the commands, toolset and the overall UX. As well as handling the whole project management part.

I decided to exercise a bit of patience to see what other people achieve through their harnesses first (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192383, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48164287).

I've chosen Rust as the language and the late summer as a deadline. If a harness is too opinionated, I don't really see the point in pushing it on anyone. And mine, I'm building it for my own workflow. So there's that

	▲	patriceckhart 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I get it. Ha, over in Zerostack I even got a shoutout with zot. :-)

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0gs 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

i am somebody else but my Show HN got zero engagement so please feel free to look at mine: http://github.com/0gsd/enough n.b. not a coding harness. it's for writing. but extensibility is a big (perhaps too big) part of it. http://enough.support has some of the principles outlined.