I recently moved entirely to Pi, and I am really enjoying the journey so far.
I am slowly shaping it to the way I like to work. It's a bit of a bumpy start, but there are two benefits I see from it:
First is that you get to understand better what goes on behind the scenes. Since it is minimalistic, you have to think about your workflow, about what you want your agents to do, how you want them to do it, etc. It's a completely different way to work since tools like ClaudeCode do a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes and just force on you their established way of doing things. By adding the building blocks yourself, you end up with a better understanding (and in many ways, control) of what is happening there.
Second, I adore how I can juggle sessions in Pi. /tree, /clone and /name quickly became second nature for me to manage agents. I am totally abusing prompt templates in my development workflows.
Also, it is an awesome harness for the models I use. DS and MiMo feel very snappy now, especially after I started to adapt Pi to my way of working. Lastly, even though those models are already cheap even on Claude Code, it feels like it is even cheaper now.
I am slowly shaping it to the way I like to work. It's a bit of a bumpy start, but there are two benefits I see from it:
First is that you get to understand better what goes on behind the scenes. Since it is minimalistic, you have to think about your workflow, about what you want your agents to do, how you want them to do it, etc. It's a completely different way to work since tools like ClaudeCode do a lot of heavy lifting behind the scenes and just force on you their established way of doing things. By adding the building blocks yourself, you end up with a better understanding (and in many ways, control) of what is happening there.
Second, I adore how I can juggle sessions in Pi. /tree, /clone and /name quickly became second nature for me to manage agents. I am totally abusing prompt templates in my development workflows.
Also, it is an awesome harness for the models I use. DS and MiMo feel very snappy now, especially after I started to adapt Pi to my way of working. Lastly, even though those models are already cheap even on Claude Code, it feels like it is even cheaper now.