After loving Claude Code for most of its lifetime, I've been extremely annoyed by every change in the past months, even on the model level.

There seem to be all sorts of continual under-the-cover changes like this one that make life harder. It feels like the entire product has been taken over by overly ambitious PMs that care more about making their mark than in improving the experience, and all of their marks have made me less productive.

I've been using Pi with GLM5.2 the past few days, and though it's expensive, I find it far more productive and less annoying. The remote session plugin is far more reliable, I don't need to intuit some undocumented usage pattern to figure out how to use it well, and it just works.

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whimsicalism 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

curious for those with experience - what do people prefer about Pi vs. opencode alternatives? i've mostly been using pi as well but not out of any principled decision

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ern_ave an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Given the source code leak, I would think there'd be open source versions by now.

	▲	isoprophlex 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Huh, that's right! You'd say that an enterprising developer with a 20x subscription could slopmaxx this in a weekend...

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Imustaskforhelp an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

> I've been using Pi with GLM5.2 the past few days, and though it's expensive

are you using the API for glm 5.2 or how exactly is it more expensive? How is GLM5.2 more expensive than using Claude code, that doesn't line up to my experience but to be fair I am on an older yearly subscription which generously only has 5 hour limits.

To be fair though one minor criticism of GLM 5.2 that I have is that it does seem to overthink quite a lot sometimes but the results end up being (good?),

I personally have used Glm 5.2 with (Opencode + obra/superpowers) / Oh-my-pi / Maki.sh

I like the 1st one when I am doing a longer project, the 2nd or 3rd one when I am doing a project which doesn't want me to ask too many questions and simply spin me up something. I sometimes use free online interfaces of claude and gemini and others like AIstudio for that as well which surprisingly can lead you to go far as well.

Overall, I am decently happy with the state of Open-source models actually and the eco-system around it is probably gonna have even more innovation surrounding it.