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Pi is very minimal. That's the main difference between it and OpenCode. Although OpenCode has a new version called OpenCode Mini... which reminds me I told Dax I'd give it a whirl- so thanks for the reminder, stranger!

I wrote my own minimal coding harness last year because I hate software bloat, but Pi scratches that itch for me now.

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Is that part of opencode v2?

Minimal alone isn’t a driving force for me. Coding intelligence and output is. I know Pete mostly codes with OC but farms hard jobs out to Codex. Teknium says he only codes in Hermes. I do iOS apps in Claude but everything else in deepseek or opus. I suspect things are about as good as they can be in terms of actual code.. across all levels.

Yeah I asked Bill Gates what he codes with in our private chat and John Carmack says he used all of them at the same time but only to check his own code while Torvalds told me he only uses it for side projects.

Nasty. My point was about.. this morning my machine crashed. Pi + Deepseek v4.1 Flash misdiagnosed it, and Opencode + Deepseek v4.1 didn't.

> I do iOS apps in Claude…

Out of curiosity, have you come across Axiom (https://charleswiltgen.github.io/Axiom/) in your quest for more effective AI-assisted iOS coding?

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