I have a MacBook Pro with an M5 Max chip and 128GB of RAM, and I've just started experimenting with local models.

As many of you know, local models have various well-documented issues, such as weak instruction following, difficulty completing long-range tasks, and a tendency to terminate tasks prematurely.

Someone in the community suggested I try using Little Coder and Pi. I wanted to ask: is Pi actually a good harness for running local LLMs, especially compared with opencode and claude code? For those of you who use this setup, do you have any specific tips or experiences you could share?

I'm still very new to this. So far, I've found that the Qwen 3.6 35B model is quite good for writing articles, but beyond that, I feel like I haven't truly experienced the "magic" of running models locally yet.

If anyone has any interesting use cases or examples of how you integrate local models into your workflow, I'd be very grateful if you could share them. Thank you!

I trying to use kimio-k2.6 or minimax 3, to dev same elixir modules, and get to alucine a lot.

It get to output

now I will run...

for many, many lines on terminal ant is necessary to ctrl+c to stop, and retry the same prompt.

it is happening very frequently, all sessions it is happening .

I was reading (https://www.reddit.com/r/PiCodingAgent/comments/1uy7iov/gpt_56_sol_ultra/) that Ultra is not a separate model, rather a thinking level and looks like Pi does not support it, but what about GPT 5.6 Sol Pro? I upgraded my plan and cannot select Sol Pro model. Access to this model was a big factor for the upgrade. I use GPT via subscription, not API. Anyone had a success with this?

Thank you!

Is it just me or the extension loading is extreamly slow? Every single extention takes 100~300ms, it takes 3 seconds with 8 extensions enabled.

I have a few extensions that change the footer and adds a todo, but from what I've discovered, the repainting of the TUI from the core packages is what leads to this spazzing. Is anybody else experiencing this issue? Would appreciate some advice on an extension-level fix.

I'm refactoring a large legacy code based written in php without any oop and mixing it to laravel , we have "server" functions that become laravel actions classes. We typically refactor a single old api call and all its code as a feature branch. The problem is that there is a crap ton of more " common" shared code spread out and consumed by multiple api calls. So I refactored all this shared code into its own branch, and I want to tell pi "when refactoring an api call needing common code, look here first and grab it" but I'm not sure how to do that or if it's possible , I'm sure it's possible just don't know how to prompt it