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Comment by mihau | Hacker News Reader

I agree that Claude Code is buggy as hell, but:

> Let's not talk about the feature parity with other agents.

What do you mean feature parity with other agents? It seems to me that other CLI agents are quite far from Claude Code in this regard.

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Which other CLI agents are that? Because I've found OpenCode to be A LOT better than Claude-Code.

Whats better with opencode? Never tried it. I like that claude code has double escape, shift + tab, team of agents

I haven't used opencode but pi agent runs rings around claude code. Never eats tons of CPU on big outputs, no flickering, open source, tree-based context instead of claude's linear context, easy to toggle collapsing/expanding tool outputs, built for extension with runtime reloading of extensions and skills, etc. You can easily build your own amp-code like handoff mechanism, customize the UI (i see models' edit diffs syntax-highlighted with delta, and just added a keybind to list session-edited files + files from git status in fzf), etc.

Meanwhile with Claude Code I've had to get claude to decompile the editor (extract JS from the bun executable) _twice_ to diagnose weird things like why some documented config flags were not taking effect.

Opus is great - but I'd rather use a different model than be forced back into Claude Code.

The great force of claude code is that you can use claude sub, you can’t with pi unfortunately

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