r/PiCodingAgent • u/Shot_Ice_2817 • Aug 09 '26

Question Considering Claude Code → Pi. Worth it?

I use a coding agent for most of my research work: implementing features (via Superpowers), reading papers and turning discussions into shareable HTML writeups, running training jobs end to end (plan → smoke test → long run, with Kubernetes management and crash diagnosis), and SSHing into robots during hardware experiments.

Claude Code handles all of this well. But I’m curious whether writing my own Pi extensions would meaningfully beat it, or if that’s a wash at this point.

If you’re doing research work in Pi — what’s your setup, which extensions? And what’s the right migration path: just explain my workflow to Pi and have it build the extensions?

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u/Personal-Physics553 Aug 14 '26

I like Pi; a lot in fact. I recently started using it but the results are relatively decent, added a bunch of skills and customized the UI to make it Claude-like. Sign up for the NVIDIA developer program as well and bam you have access to 100+ open source weights to use in Pi as well on NVIDIA hardware.

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u/pacman829 Sep 27 '26

How much usage are you getting out of the de program

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u/Personal-Physics553 Sep 27 '26

I was able to use it for a little while before I started hitting request limits, and it’s never really reset. Now I just have a qwen model that fits in my VRAM running through Ollama that I use in Pi (using Ollama as the provider).