A month of coding with Pi, its small agent loop, and the skills and extensions I've added to it.
Skills, forks, and self-surgery: how agent harnesses grow
Claude Code, NanoClaw, and Pi take radically different approaches to harness extensibility. The tradeoff is always safety vs. agent agency.
I Hated Every Coding Agent, So I Built My Own — Mario Zechner (Pi)
Building pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner
Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw
A gentle introduction to the Pi coding agent and why I think it’s a glimpse into the future of software.
Pi, Minimal and Performant | EARENDIL
How Pi's minimal harness improves coding-agent cost and performance, with examples from Databricks and Shopify's pi-autoresearch extension.
Mental models for working with coding agents
Model intelligence sets the ceiling. Your workflow with the agent harness sets what you actually ship.
Inside the Harness: Four Months of Being Wrong About pi | Nick Nisi
I tried pi in March, talked a coworker out of it in July, and rebuilt my entire agent stack on it in August. The thing I'd missed was that everything I'd been building around my harness could live inside it.
Peter Steinberger 🦞 on Twitter / X
Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore.You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.— Peter Steinberger 🦞 (@steipete) June 7, 2026
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Mario Zechner created the Pi agent framework used by OpenClaw, giving considerable credibility to his opinions on current trends in agentic engineering. He's not impressed: We have basically given up …
where good ideas come from (for coding agents)
(and the part where users have to level up)
The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
Coding Agents Are Easy, Actually - Kara's Nonsense
Software engineering is here to stay
What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent
Lessons I learned while building my own coding agent from scratch.
Scaling long-running autonomous coding · Cursor
We've been experimenting with running coding agents autonomously for weeks at a time.
Its noticing others gaining the same insight about adverserial loops improving output reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1q5a90l/s…
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