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I love hacking away at pi extensions.

I realised how use case dependent harness behaviour is when I tried to use my customised-for-a-side-project pi config at work and realised I needed to tweak it significantly to be useful - I would not be surprised if tools like Claude Code needing to be all things for all people is hurting their peak usefulness.

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End up building Pi extensions instead of actual product.

Doesn't make sense to me, but to each their own.

Yeah, but the future will essentially be building extensions for agents. Agents will become the new web browser and extensions will be the new apps. We are already seeing the early stages of this.

how many extensions do you need for browsing the web? Adblocker. Not much else because the browser already does the important work.

Same with any of the off the shelf harnesses.

Go build something useful instead of tweaking the minutiae of the harness.

You don't need any extensions to use Pi. You can get far without any.

Yeah this seems pretty strange to me, I feel like I don't really care about messing around with all the tooling surrounding AI. I just want to get my actual work done. When I first moved to VS Code from Sublime Text I think I spent maybe 15 minutes setting up a few extensions like Emmet and then never really thought about it again - because I had actual work to do. I've just been waiting for all the constant change around AI coding to die down, assuming whatever is best will emerge and then I'll just use that.

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