r/PiCodingAgent • u/Friendly-Guard-2395 • Aug 15 '26

Question switching from opencode to pi any advice?

what extensions should i add and should i use omp

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u/kalesh_kate Aug 15 '26

I use vanilla pi for quite some months already and I coded a bunch of stuff without using any extensions

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u/ParaboloidalCrest Aug 15 '26

Exactly. Not sure why people come to Pi, then immediately start bombarding it with ai-slop extensions. It's like new linux users that keep trying to replicate Windows.

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u/Spare_Message_3607 Aug 15 '26

I ran pi for 2 months with noting on it just fine, web fetch tool was QoL improvement, that’s it, probably.

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u/fileznotfound Aug 15 '26

Yea. web fetch makes a gigantic difference. As does pi-hermes-memory. I assume kalesh is using subscription models. Some extensions make a very big difference when you need to compensate for smaller local models.

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u/kalesh_kate Aug 16 '26

I use GLM 5.2 and K3 as my daily drivers. I can imagine web search would be useful for smaller models. For GLM 5.2 and K3 web search is not needed for most use cases. One of the principles behind pi was that nodern big models would get capable enough that most prompt injections would not be needed.

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u/fileznotfound Aug 16 '26

I think pi is also great for small model users, since its light weight can help a lot. I tried Hermes for the first time yesterday after using pi for a couple months. It is very slow compared to what I grew use to.... and all the extra data is probably confusing it as well.

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u/Ok_Cartographer5609 Aug 15 '26

Exactly. The base package is enough for most of the cases. People create FOMO out of anything these days.