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Comment by jmcdonald-ut

I've only used it at home a little on personal projects. My usage is probably odd -- I connected it with Bedrock, but otherwise used it the same as I do Claude Code (mostly). My basic flow was simple:

  - Ask it to accomplish some coding task
  - If it fell short, and I determined that was due to the harness, ask it to patch
  - Otherwise proceed to next task
  - Rinse + repeat
I run it within a sandbox, so I've been comfortable with the lack of native "approvals". So far my personal usage hasn't really needed subagents, but I think this is one thing I'd need to sort out were I using it professionally[1]. I'm aware of oh-my-pi, but I think half the fun is hacking from the base.

The light weight prompt and simple harness design are a lot of fun. I don't mind Claude Code, and I think its well designed for the problem domain, but Pi is a lot of fun to hack with.

Hope that helps!

[1]: https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/#to...

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