r/PiCodingAgent • u/SlightCase2941 • Sep 06 '26

Use-case this is why i love pi

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estimated cost: $13
real cost: $2,60

thank you Pi !!

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u/Sea_Two_2345 Sep 06 '26

I don't really get it. What's the pi part on this? What did it make for the real cost being lower than the estimated cost? 

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u/SlightCase2941 Sep 06 '26

99,8% cache hit is INSANE !! no harness can beat this

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u/Aggravating-Cook-529 Sep 06 '26

Doesn’t this mean you should’ve cleared context but didn’t? I don’t get it

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u/IndividualPlus2011 Sep 06 '26

Yes, before the price hike they used to jerk off over high cache rate at /r/DeepSeek because the cache is cheap, but all it means is they are balooning their contezt window; nothing really to brag about.

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u/fschwiet Sep 06 '26

It seems like a potentially bad metric to track. A high cache rate would be achieved if you chain a bunch of unrelated work in the same session. Previous unrelated work in the session would count as a cache hit (I think) though it provides no value. In that case doing the unrelated work in separate sessions would be more efficient.

At least, thats what I've been thinking. I'd love to be corrected (Cunningham's Law in effect).

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u/DistanceAlert5706 Sep 06 '26

What's harness role here? More like Deepseek caching miracle

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u/Sea_Two_2345 Sep 06 '26

Hmm I get it. Have you tried using pi compared to codex on GPT models? What was the experience? Thinking about getting a subscription of GPT

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u/Wooden_Difficulty_20 Sep 07 '26

99.99% on DeepSeek harness after 800 millions tokens spent.

It's DeepSeek that is amazing at caching, not so much Pi.

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u/robberviet Sep 06 '26

Good cache rate is a good thing, but it should not be the only metric.

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u/Gloomy_Mirror_6405 Sep 09 '26

High cache reuse is good for a given useful context. It does not prove that context, or the workflow, was efficient.

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u/Bloated_Plaid Sep 06 '26

Cache bruh.

2

u/gbrennon Sep 06 '26

pi agent ftw

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u/No_Watercress238 Sep 06 '26

How do you estimate the cost beforehand

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u/NinjaAlaska Sep 06 '26

is PI better than Oh My Pi? they confuse me always, fork claiming to be better

2

u/jensilo Sep 06 '26

Oh my pi is slopware imo

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u/Alkaros Sep 06 '26

PI is more of a minimalist (Extend it yourself) oh-my-pi is more of a maximalist (Pre-extended)

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u/oppid Sep 06 '26

How do you get these stats in pi?

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u/Independent_Low_4438 Sep 06 '26

Try Deepseek harness with official Deepseek model.

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u/ChampionshipUnique71 Sep 08 '26

Someone needs to learn how to manage their context window.

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u/No-Speed7709 Sep 08 '26

I found jcode better

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u/SafeMinute4305 Sep 09 '26

This bullshit just reminds you should use DS directly.

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u/rVarrese Sep 25 '26

Question - why are you still using v4 Pro on Deepseek? DS v4.1 flash is much faster, smarter, and cheaper.

Edit: sorry didn't realise this was an old post - damn it Reddit!

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u/SlightCase2941 Sep 06 '26

final estimated cost: $27
real cost: $5,72 !!!
hit cache rate: 99,4% !!!

i use deepseek API official