Verious B. Smith III

The best of times and sexy UIs... What more could you ask for??

@pmarca @badlogicgames you got it bro

OpenClaw and Pi together are in the top 10 of all time software breakthroughs.

A bespoke software revolution? I don't buy it. It'll exist. It already exists. Small consultants and big consulting firms have made custom software for years. It almost always sucks. It’s bloated, confusing, and because the client pays, it’s built wrong in all the ways. Who’s excited about bespoke software? Software makers! Of course they're excited about building bespoke software — that's what they do. X is full of them. Your feed is full of people who love making software talking about making software. Of course they’re excited about the revolution. Echo, echo, echo... Most people don’t like computers. Nobody in tech wants to say that out loud. People tolerate computers. They use them because they have to. Given the choice, most would rather not think about them at all. So when someone suggests that AI means everyone will build their own custom tools, ask who "everyone" is. The three-person accounting firm drowning in client paperwork? They want the paperwork gone, not a new system to maintain. The regional logistics company with 40 trucks? They want the routes optimized, not Joe spouting off about this new system he’s been messing around with. The law firm billing 70-hour weeks? They want leverage on their time, not a software project to design. They don’t hate technology. But building and maintaining their own critical systems isn’t their wheelhouse, regardless of how much faster and easier it’s become. It's another job on top of the job. Will these people use AI? Absolutely, for all sorts of things. Will some outliers go deep and build real custom systems? Sure, but they're almost always people who already had some pull toward software. The curiosity was already there. They were dabblers before. Giving everyone access to software building tools doesn't mean everyone becomes a builder. A powerful excavator doesn't turn a homeowner into a contractor. Most people just want the hole dug by someone else. They don’t want the responsibility either.

@badlogicgames I like the idea, ship it and we will send slop!

People of pi. I'm considering adding a /submit-data-to-mario command. here's why and how. please read and take part. i know it's a lot of text. 🥧 POLL IN NEXT POST, PLEASE VOTE! pi has an edit tool. that tool let's the agent edit a file by specifying an old string which is to be replaced by a new string. this edit tool performs surprisingly OK across many models. but it's not perfect. for example, gpt 5.4 isn't amazing at using it, while weirdly enough gpt 5.3 codex mostly is. i'm considering a new default edit tool implementation that lets the agent specify multiple old/new string replacements in one tool call. i've seen this perform better with gpt 5.4 based on vibes on my code bases. but that does not mean it will perform better with other models on other code bases. i would thus like to try the following experiment: 1. implement the new edit tool 2. add a /send-mario-data slash command 3. add a weekly reminder asking you to manually trigger /send-mario-data which you can turn off immediately the first time the reminder is shown to you, or anytime via settings the slash command would: 1. scan your sessions from the past 7 days in ~/.pi/agent/sessions for edit tool calls, what provider/model emitted the tool call, how many replacements where emitted, the file extension (e.g. ".ts", ".c") and whether the tool call succeeded, and the pi version 2. it would aggregate this tool call data per provider/model. this let's me see which models fail how often using the new edit tool, and if that's related to the number of replacements it is trying to make per tool call 3. it would show you the exact data that will be submitted to my server at pi.dev and stored there before anything is sent, with a cancel and send button the data will include a uuid (stored in ~/.pi/agents/id.json), so i can track performance over time from the same source. the data will NOT include: 1. any PII, including your ip 2. any actual file paths, old strings, new strings 3. any other information other than what is stated above exactly. this aggregate data will then be available to everyone on the web and will help me improve the edit tool in general, or for some specific models. by publishing this data for everyone, other coding harness maintainers can also benefit (hopefully). pi has zero telemetry becaude i myself despise telemetry. that also means i'm flying blind wrt how the edit tool works with models (and programming languages) i do not use. other coding harnesses are instrumented up the wazoo and have all this data (some without pii removal or aggregation). which kinda puts pi at a disadvantage. i also think that this kind of aggregate data being available can contribute to building open datasets all of us in the coding agent space can benefit from (yes, i'm a dirty hippy who dislikes duopolies). TL;DR: would you supoort this effort and voluntarily contribute such aggregate data on an entirely manual and opt-in basis? (i would also like to learn about anything you think is wrong with the scheme i outlined above! post below)

Let's go

@jdkornac @badlogicgames Not very original thieves 😂

@badlogicgames @e9n/pi-channels" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">npmjs.com/package/@e9n/p… Already exists and it’s even called the same lol

People of pi, you have 2 hours to clone this with a pi extension. Go!

@Bencera Looks like my workflow to some degree

my AI coding workflow as a solo founder: - opus 4.6 for exploration + planning - codex 5.4 xhigh to stress-test the plan (catches gaps opus missed) - back to opus, which usually complains codex is overengineering lol - few rounds back and forth. codex implements, opus reviews. - ask both: "safe to ship? what's the worst thing that could happen?" opus and codex arguing over my codebase is my entire engineering team. will probably ship this workflow as a Polsia feature at some point.

@cuysheffield Doesn't work on mobile!

Excited to share Visa CLI, the first experimental product from Visa Crypto Labs. Check it out and request access here visacli.sh

@sarahwooders But it's lazy

Opus is like GPT 4o for smart people It tickles your brain in just the right psychosis-inducing way

I've already got a working integration

@Arvor_IA @sriramk @badlogicgames Pretty easy to do with PI extensions

What I want: a read-only pane that shows me “all agents, current task, last update, blockers” in one glance. Less like a dashboard, more like a morning standup that runs itself. The gap right now is that every harness optimizes for running one agent well. Managing a team of agents is a different problem.

have switched to pi.dev as my agent harness. @badlogicgames has built something very useful. what do folks like as an extension to manage multiple agents at the same time. something that would - show me the status of various agents - show me what is stuck - run meta analysis to suggest better mechanisms (switch models, a side agent that can analyze the current agents) might code one up if nothing exists.

This is how things advance

We live in a time of amazing abundance

@sriramk @badlogicgames Welcome to the people of PI! @badlogicgames AKA Gramps has built a great tool!

This used to be my every weekend

Build in public

Been using Go lots lately

This is a big vision

Probably the most current look at Palantir’s maven smart system software. Here’s the DoW’s Chief AI officer showing how it works:

You MUST build for agents now. - x402 - A2A - A2P - Machine Payments - CLIs - etc...

MCP -vs- CLI from Claude 4.6's perspective.