alt Hacker NewsPi is so “unbloated” that it’s extra effort to use. You can decide how much work to put into it. I get the trade off. But this is a big jump from CC. I’d recommend some middle ground like opencode.
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trollbridge • yesterday at 5:29 PM
It's worth trying out OpenCode, then oh-my-pi, and also the commercial harnesses like Codex. (I haven't yet bothered to try Antigravity and have no interest in Gemini-cli now that it's not available except on expensive plans.)
pi is also worth tinkering with, particularly if you have an eye towards automating some things.
ejpir • yesterday at 10:34 PM
what are you building that doesn't work with read,write,edit,bash and skills? Genuinely interested.
Even simpler, use Cursor with any frontier model. I see others sweat to add enough context to Claude Code while Cursor has a ton of contextual awareness, uses subagents automatically and is significantly faster with no drop off I have found. I'm not sure why devs are so enamored with living in the CLI, but Cursor has one of those too.