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Goodbye Claude, hello Pi

What HN thinks

A thread about leaving Claude for Pi that mostly turned into a referendum on whether terminals deserve to be GUIs, with everyone quietly building their own harness anyway.

Pi wins because you own it
Pi fans say its minimal core and extension system let them shape the harness exactly to their workflow, often by asking the model to write extensions. Skeptics say plan mode and other basics are missing out of the box.
Claude Code still best for Anthropic
Some argue Claude Code is tuned for Anthropic models, with better compaction and caching, and that third-party harnesses risk ToS bans and cost more than the generous subscriptions.
GUI versus TUI debate
Many moved to desktop GUIs or custom web UIs for multi-session management and readability, while others defend TUIs for SSH, low resource use, and tmux or herdr workflows.

Consensus: There is no consensus on interface, but most agree harness flexibility and avoiding vendor lock-in matter, and that subscription pricing heavily shapes which harness people can afford to use.

Recommended in the comments

herdr (tool): Several users say it scales to a dozen or more concurrent agent sessions better than any GUI.
Orca ↗ (product): It supports switching providers, remote hosts, and chat or TUI views of the same session.
Paseo ↗ (tool): Users like its UI for driving Codex, Claude Code and Pi sessions across multiple machines.
T3Code (tool): It supports many harnesses and subscriptions, remote agents and cross-agent orchestration.
Zot ↗ (tool): Recommended for people who want Pi's approach without the Node.js ecosystem.
pi-web ↗ (tool): It gives Pi a promising GUI with an interactive demo, though rough edges remain.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 5 days ago.

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Best rank: #1
Posted: 2026-11-08 by karagenit
Category: AI & ML

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