Pi coding agent: config folder is out of place on Linux

(github.com)

25 points | by joooscha 6 hours ago ago

8 comments

  • Systemerror7A69 an hour ago

    This has been frustrating me for a while and is part of why I explore other coding agents.

    As many advantages as pi has in some areas, there are definitely areas where I believe the hype to be a bit overstated. While the config folder is, ultimately, not relevant for performance, how this was and is continued to handled is a bit frustrating for me.

    They have made it abundantly clear it's not going to change however so I'm looking at how other coding agents perform currently.

    • fny an hour ago

      LLMs make it gloriously simple to fork and patch and existing repo. If you run into a merge conflict down the line, its a snap to fix too.

      Just make the changes you want to your favorite harness and move on.

      • coldbrewed 35 minutes ago

        In practice this requires duplicating the upstream build and release pipelines, so now you need yet another agent running in the background (+ periodically going off the rails + eating tokens) which incurs more up front cost and cognitive overhead.

        In my experience "throw another agent at it/fork it" consistently creates unsupervised trainwrecks.

      • Systemerror7A69 39 minutes ago

        Sure but I'm really not that invested in one single harness. I tried out pi because people were recommending it so much. It turns out I personally have some things which annoy me, so I try out others now as well.

        If I don't find anything which fits me I might fork it, but even that little effort is not really worth it if theres something which fits me better.

        I already found maki which...seems to do the exact same job pi did for me, and I wanna check out crush as well.

  • bArray an hour ago

    404 on the page, main page: "Cannot retrieve latest commit at this time." [1]. GitHub are you okay?

    Edit: Known issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330597

    [1] https://github.com/earendil-works/pi/

  • throw1234567891 39 minutes ago

    Who cares, geez. Is a single github issue so important that this needs to land on the front page? You can move it and configure your own env to have it wherever you want.

    I use pi and couldn’t care less.

  • world2vec an hour ago

    I keep getting the Unicorn or 404.

    • droidjj an hour ago

      I think this is a GitHub issue (of course it is) as I'm not able to search for anything atm.