alexfortin

Wow, I've missed that, thanks for the heads up.

I'm writing some Crystal (which has Ruby-like syntax) and I'd add `unless` to the list. I like it!

Actually the main reason to use Pi is because it's lean and doesn't pollute the context with all sorts of noise like most of the $corporate agents do.

A nice benefit of going minimal with coding agents is that you might find out you don't need to do any hand holding because nowadays models are perfectly capable of reaching out for tools etc and make you happy without any extras required. In my experiece so far less truly is more when talking about agents.

Personally I think I could probably be content for the rest of my days running something like Z.ai glm-5.3-flash locally, so I'm not that worried about the token spending (and still can't understand how OAI/Anthropic/etc convinced the market they have any kind of moat to motivate those kind of evaluations, but that's another topic...)

That said, I also feel like betting on readability, maintainablility, taste, etc, being an important aspect of software, at least until code will remain some sort of human readable artifact. We'll still want to be able to understand it and perhaps occasionally add/edit by hand, make sense of it without trusting blindly what any kind of program (LLM based or not) will tell us about it, and so on.

I agree, that's acutally what I'm doing right now: living frugally in a cheap country while building an ambitious high quality pruduct.

I never had a better time "professionally" (albeit no income yet!) so far in my whole life! Apparently it's truly like the best of times and the worst of times to be building software, if you have the luck and the luxury to be able to work only for yourself than it's really a great time to be alive.

I can't think of a greater incentive to only use open weight models than ads.

Disclaimer: I already use open weight models only since ~Jan this year and very happy about it.