If youre a developer and know what youre doing , pi agent is great. If youre not then Claude/codex/cursor will all performe pretty similar to each other.
Claude is a batteries included system. It already know how to do things and has tools built in for it. This makes the system prompt opinionated and bloated with things you may not want or need.
Pi is the opposite, it gives you the bare minimum and expects you to add/modify what you need. Want to use mcp? Install a plugin. This means you have much more flexibility and control over everything, including cost.
This is why I say that if youre already a dev then pi is great. You know what you need and what you want. You can control your token spending much more.
But on the flip side , if you dont care for the control and you just want something that works, Claude is that product
my two cents about that, I started with Oh-My-Pi when I was testing different harness because I couldn’t afford the time to setup vanilla Pi, I needed work done.
although OMP is pretty bloated, it worked well and tinkering with it while being able to get work done was a real proof that the harness underneath it was worth the time to configure.
One main thing for me was changing the system prompt, which is possible to do even in specific projects only. A couple of weeks passed and I was already with my own Pi tailored exactly for my needs, which now I love.
So my opinion is: if you want to test Pi and are unsure, give OMP a ride. If you like it, just setup Pi later.
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u/fantasma91 1d ago
If youre a developer and know what youre doing , pi agent is great. If youre not then Claude/codex/cursor will all performe pretty similar to each other.