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 …
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.
Building pi in a World of Slop — Mario Zechner
The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
My current theory of agentic programming: people are amazing at adapting the tools they're given and totally underestimate the extent to which they do it, and the amount of skill we build doing that is an incidental consequence of how badly the tools are designed.
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)
The Top 5 Agent-Engineered Open Source Projects
The five open source projects that best show what agent-engineered software can become.
Building and evaluating AI Agents — Sayash Kapoor, AI Snake Oil
Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
A deepdive into how Codex has “taken over” OpenAI, how the frontier lab builds its agentic software factory, and the engineering challenges of one billion users. Details from inside OpenAI
First impressions: Delta - Cameron's writing
A look at Zed's new agent development tool.
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
Exclusive: Codex agents are inching into the mainstream
OpenAI's agentic coding and work platform is growing, according to a new report from the company.
Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
How to Train Your Agent: Building Reliable Agents with RL — Kyle Corbitt, OpenPipe
Agents Done Right: A Framework Vision for 2026
Agents choke on context, loop on failures, and dump walls of code for review. It's time to rethink the architecture.
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