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New comment by ontouchstart in "I've sold out"

ontouchstart — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:00:22 +0000

I forked pi-mono to freeze it.

Here is a session of pi analyzing coding-agent package itself.

https://ontouchstart.github.io/.pi/agent/sessions/--pi-mono-...

It was created via a non-interactive CLI command in a docker container connected to a local llama.cpp server with a very limited model. $0 token cost.

New comment by ontouchstart in "I've sold out"

ontouchstart — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:29:39 +0000

My point is pi-coding-agent [1] is a very well designed and implemented open source project that we all can learn from as software engineers. His blog post about his decision making [2] is also very well written.

I should've given original links instead of noisy HN threads.

[1] https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/blob/main/packages/codin...

[2] https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/

pi-conding-agent itself is not a product yet and it won't have much value to end users other than those using the products built on top of it.

New comment by ontouchstart in "I've sold out"

ontouchstart — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:43:59 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691481

New comment by ontouchstart in "I've sold out"

ontouchstart — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:22:25 +0000

Some technical background:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844822

New comment by ontouchstart in "I've sold out"

ontouchstart — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:12:40 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600817

New comment by ontouchstart in "I've sold out"

ontouchstart — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:41:52 +0000

I found out last night via pi.dev. And the new repo of pi didn’t exist yet.

I have been working with pi-mono locally for a few months now. Great code base to study. Much higher quality than CC. (I have posted a gist analysis before.)

Will keep an eye on the work of these talented engineers and entrepreneurs. Good luck guys!

New comment by ontouchstart in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

ontouchstart — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:46:37 +0000

Vibe coding is like building castles in a sandbox, it is fun but nobody would live in them.

Once you have learned enough from playing with sand castles, you can start over to build real castles with real bricks (and steel if you want to build skyscraper). Then it is your responsibility to make sure that they would not collapse when people move it.

New comment by ontouchstart in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

ontouchstart — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:58:36 +0000

AI “workflows” share the same addictive characteristics of web surfing online virtual media, which can be counter productive. In this regard, we do need some serious learning at all the levels in the workplace. Otherwise we will become addicted to the slot machines.

Addiction is a much harder problem than distraction.

New comment by ontouchstart in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

ontouchstart — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:21:43 +0000

https://gistpreview.github.io/?30a4e491eb2df7523ecc120b86feb... (pi)

https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/d7e3b7ec6e568164edfd482... (cc)

M5 (24G)

New comment by ontouchstart in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

ontouchstart — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:46:33 +0000

I’m using pi and cc locally in a docker container connected to a local llama.cpp so the whole agentic loop is 100% offline.

I had used pi and cc to analyze the unpacked cc to compare their design, architecture and implementation.

I guess your site was also coded with pi and it is very impressive. Wonderful if you can do a visualization for pi vs cc as well. My local models might not be powerful enough.

Thanks for the hard work!

New comment by ontouchstart in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

ontouchstart — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:31:33 +0000

AI safety is just like any technology safety, you can’t bubble wrap everything. Thinking about early stage of electricity, it was deadly (and still is), but we have proper insulation and industry standards and regulations, plus common sense and human learning. We are safe (most of the time).

This also applies to the first technology human beings developed: fire .

New comment by ontouchstart in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

ontouchstart — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:34:36 +0000

Just found out this and will watch myself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RLIlNWv1xo

New comment by ontouchstart in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

ontouchstart — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:26:25 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533611

It is fun to use.

New comment by ontouchstart in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

ontouchstart — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:37:00 +0000

Everything can be written in JavaScript will be written in JavaScript.

Everything can be rewritten in Rust will be written in Rust.

New comment by ontouchstart in "HyperAgents: Self-referential self-improving agents"

ontouchstart — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:50:50 +0000

I asked Pi to implement a skill. It was written in TS. Then I ask it to use the skill in two different sessions, none of them can get it working. One has to wrap it with JS and call it. The other has to take the curl commands out of the skill and call them directly. Which is quite smart BTW. But what is the point of making a convoluted TS skill at all?

https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/40db1244c0ff523f830df1c...

New comment by ontouchstart in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

ontouchstart — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:46:19 +0000

What I have leaned from the exercise above is that we paid more attention and spent more resources on "metadata" than real data. They are the rabbit holes that lead us to more metadata and forget what we really want.

We are all rabbits.

New comment by ontouchstart in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

ontouchstart — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:31:58 +0000

I am "playing" with both pi and Claude (in docker containers) with local llama.cpp and as an exercise, I asked both the same question and the results are in this gist:

https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/d43591213e0d3087369298f...

(Note: pi was written by the author of the post.)

Now it is time to read them carefully without AI.

New comment by ontouchstart in "How (not) to waste a morning with AI Agent"

ontouchstart — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:02:12 +0000

This is an experiment on a beautiful Sprint morning. It doesn’t matter which model is behind it.

Reading a real book is more important than fighting misinformation.

How (not) to waste a morning with AI Agent

ontouchstart — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:02:12 +0000

Article URL: https://gist.github.com/ontouchstart/c06789fa8722c62ba2d5e6a1f7d0690f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47455588

Points: 3

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New comment by ontouchstart in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

ontouchstart — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:23:13 +0000

Are you going to join codex team as well? I am curious about how the codex code base will evolve after you guys joined. It is going to affect Python/Rust toolchains tremendously.