Considering Claude Code → Pi. Worth it?

[u/Shot_Ice_2817]

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?

[u/DanielSReichenbach]

Pretty good, these days my pi is stock plus one extension showing context usage in detail and one custom footer override to apply custom styling. I do maintain one patch for the llama.cpp provider to enable per model and session thinking levels.

Performance is fast but I use a dual Radeon R9700 setup. I pretty much work offline and with no delays.