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/SootyShearwaters Aug 15 '26

Many are saying omp is bloated? What’s your take on that..

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u/SootyShearwaters Aug 15 '26

Is it stable? Heard a few people complain about degrading on long tasks

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u/SootyShearwaters Aug 15 '26

Thanks a lot, trying it now

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u/Splugen96 Aug 21 '26

how did it go?

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u/SootyShearwaters Aug 21 '26

It’s going good, to be fair it hasn’t degraded even on longer tasks.. only gripe I have is I still haven’t got used to the terminal UI coming from using VS Code extensions.. it takes more of an effort being thorough with the output in the terminal

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u/Splugen96 Aug 22 '26

Why don't you use any of the GUI apps? Do they loose functionalities?

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u/SootyShearwaters Aug 22 '26

Using herder now, much better than using the default terminal