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There are maybe 30-60 million software developers and software developer adjacent people on this planet. Out of those probably 30% are late AI adopters, laggards, that haven't even used a terminal client and some don't even use AI.
Also a lot of people - developers included, just don't like command line tools.
Then pi is a secondary harness after Claude, Codex, OpenCode. I imagine the likelihood of pi having more than a few hundreds of thousands of users is remote. It's basically the Emacs or Vim of harnesses.
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It's a dependency of OpenClaw. Everything else aside, that's ~390k likely users minimum due to the auto-starring.
Though, I realize now the "hundreds of thousands" claim I was responding to is per week, while my guess is all time.
You don't think that millions of people use vim and emacs? Out of 30-60 million software people?
We package Pi w/ Qwen3.6 35B-A3B configures with our software, we're ramping up close to 500 clients, so there is our contribution.