Claude Code is a steaming pile of vibe-coded bloat.
Pi has been elegantly designed with a minimalist mindset.
> It has about half the relevancy of "MCP", which is such a similar concept where hanger ons try to catch a steam train.
I'm not even sure what you're saying here. Are you saying MCP and Pi are similar concepts? Or that both are hanger-ons? I believe the steam train of Claude Code is heading for a wall and Pi has no intention to catch it.
Not disagreeing but I'm curious how much it really matters.
I use OpenCode which is similarly a steaming pile of vibe-coded bloat and get pretty good results!
I'm open to switching to pi, which I've read about occasionally on HN, but I'm struggling to see where it might have practical benefits versus OpenCode.
The idea that pi is now under corporate governance with a potentially sustainable business model does intrigue me, but there's risk in adopting "open core" software too due to the potential rug pull and incentives to gate important features behind more restrictive licenses.
OLLAMA_CONTEXT_LENGTH=16384 ollama launch pi --model qwen3.5:9b
To get close to a happy experience with Claude Code or OpenCode with small local models I had to use 28B to 32B local models.
What agent do you use then? To me it seems most are terrible, incl Claude Code, OpenCode, and the other usual ones. I never felt an urge to use one. At best I used one very reluctantly as a magical black box.