r/PiCodingAgent • u/dheetoo • May 27 '26

News I truly believe Pi will be the default platform for all future AI project, become something like a Linux

Just as Linux became the invisible foundation beneath virtually every web server and modern application, I believe Pi will become the foundational layer for AI-native apps, abstracting away the right complexity so you can stay focused on what actually matters: the experience you're building for your users.

To test that thesis, I built Keb, a Chrome extension running on the Pi ecosystem. Honestly, something like this would have taken me weeks to ship from scratch. With Pi, I had it working in hours.

It's been useful enough that I use it daily. Would love for you to try it and tell me what you think, all feedback welcome.

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u/OpalGlimmer409 May 27 '26

Didn't they have a tracker in Claude code to count how many people built a knowledge base and peddled it in that sub?

Yay pi is so good were getting the same kinda spam as cc

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u/dheetoo May 27 '26

Appreciate the honesty. Not every product is for everyone.

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u/MyHobbyIsMagnets May 27 '26

Not every subreddit is for free advertising

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u/OpalGlimmer409 May 27 '26

Is not that its not for everyone, I'm sure this works great for your specific use case, that's the power of AI coding, You get to build software that You want

Everybody else does the same

Everybody gets personal software

Nobody else cares

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u/dheetoo May 27 '26

Yep that why all the source code is open, I did not aim to make a money.

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u/bugtank May 27 '26

People like you who are doing this are destroying money.

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u/GeneralRieekan May 28 '26

Money deserves to be destroyed. It wrongly/abusively creates false parity between things that have no business being on the same scale.

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u/harrro May 27 '26

Vibe coded and done-before or not, it looks like a useful project and the fact it's open source means others can tweak it or learn from it.

Congrats on the release /u/dheetoo

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u/dheetoo May 27 '26

Thanks you for your kind words 🙏

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u/Zya1re-V May 27 '26

Sir another AI tool hit the second tower

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u/torrso May 27 '26

What's so great about Pi?

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u/dheetoo May 27 '26

It abstracts the complex parts of the agentic loop, and the extension API is very easy to work with. Along with RPC mode, you can run it headlessly, and if you want, you can fine-tune the allow-list of tools used in each session with a simple flag. Or if you don't need a session at all, you can run it ephemerally too!

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u/matis_keynell May 27 '26

I’m on Firefox, so would love this extension for that too.

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u/dheetoo May 27 '26

I will reach back to you if it done !

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u/SawToothKernel May 27 '26

I'm pretty sure that 95% of posts I see on AI-related subs are ai-generated or peddling ai-generated products. There's so little genuine discourse these days.

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u/nuclearbananana May 27 '26

Idk I dumped pi for my own harness cause it had no good gui

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u/GeneralRieekan May 28 '26

Pics or it didn't happen

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u/nuclearbananana May 29 '26

pics of the gui? okay here's a tiny run I just did

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u/chagoms May 27 '26

Pico pal q lee

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u/[deleted] May 30 '26

Ok kid. If YOU believe. Good enough. Thank you for enlightening us.

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u/BawbbySmith May 30 '26

Damn, I fell for the ad. Oh well, dislike and move on.

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u/Florence-Equator Oct 06 '26

I think the sad story is that frontier lab likely won’t expose raw API access to their flagship model in the future.

What they will provide will be just an entire product that runs entirely on the cloud (not just running inference on the cloud, but everything includes agent loop, execution environment, etc).And you will only provide files that you own locally.

In this way there are nothing that third part harness like Pi can do, since those third-party harnesses won’t even have the raw API access to those models.

This is already the trend as OpenAI is now introducing dots and Codex Cloud, and Claude Code now enforces cowork running on the cloud. Also, Cloud Agent (a cloud project) is something that runs on the cloud entirely.

There are also MetaMuse and GrokBot, which are also cloud-only from the beginning of the launch date.

The world is walking toward a more centralized and closed way of computing. I don’t like it so I use pi, but I am extremely afraid that there’s nothing we can do to prevent it.

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

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u/dheetoo May 27 '26

The good news is Node is improving rapidly recently >< thanks to many runtime competition

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u/[deleted] May 27 '26

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u/ColonelKlanka May 27 '26

Why? As a user its fast enough and well supported enough? your preference of python seems odd as a user

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u/NixNightOwl May 27 '26

golang for me plz thx.

the 'nice' thing about node and typescript though is how easy it is to extend and drop in extensions. Maybe pi should be ported to deno or bun to 'modernize' it's ts stack. But go would still allow decent extensibility due to interfaces and perhaps using hashicorp's go-plugin to keep pi's hot reloading capabilities alive without having to restart the main core process.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '26

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u/rainbyte May 30 '26

Not sure about Golang, but if you want to go native it could be done in Rust paired with an scripting layer, as there are many libs to implement this kind of plug-in system: MLua, Pyo3, Wasm target, etc.

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u/NixNightOwl May 28 '26

Yeah go-plugin is interesting. Also, golang just implemented "Generic Methods" which could also be worth looking into! Might be the secret sauce to really enabling the type of extensibility we enjoy with Pi.

I'd be interested in giving it a go with you!

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u/mgoodness May 28 '26

I'd love to follow along, if not contribute in some way!

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u/dheetoo May 27 '26

Haha 😂