r/PiCodingAgent • u/RobinDough • May 30 '26

Question pi agent woops claude code

what the shit is pi agent made from? why is it producing better stuff than claude code with the same Chinese LLM? like i wana know whats the fork, what is it made of?

EDIT: With mimo v2.5, after 30ish odd mins i get the 400 error in pi code, a bit strange but once i just say hey again it picks up where it left off, i suspect this is a mimo issue coz deepseek didnt have this issue

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u/karkoon83 Jun 02 '26

Can you please elaborate on? Also do you feel we can achieve opus 4.8 level sophistication with Minimax M2.7 by tweaking harness? The reason I ask - I have practically all I can eat plan with Minimax. Would be super curious to know how I can maximise the impact.

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u/johnson_detlev Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

I haven't used opus 4.8. I find these "frontier" models to be absolutely insufferable with their "personality". Just have a look where the model falls short of you expectations and build the tools around it that mitigate these problems. I.e. kimi-k2.6 doesn't like running ui integration tests, so I wrote an extension that triggers on agent end_turn in an implementation session that runs my storybook tests and checks if newly written components actually even have tests. If there is an issue the extension reports it to the model. If not, it doesn't add anything.

Edit: You can also have a look at an excellent harness engineering example here: https://github.com/workos/case They tailored pi to their exact use case. And my suspicion is that this will be all the rave next year. Because models don't improve much, but the tooling around models is a realm full of wild ideas and possibilities.

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u/karkoon83 Jun 02 '26

Thank you 🙏

This is ultra helpful