Comment by LoganDark
7 hours ago
The value in Claude Code is its harness. I've tried the desktop app and found it was absolutely terrible in comparison. Like, the very nature of it being a separate codebase is already enough to completely throw off its performance compared to the CLI. Nuts.
> The value in Claude Code is its harness
If this was the case then Anthropic would be in a very bad spot.
It's not, which is why people got so mad about being forced to use it rather than better third party harnesses.
Pi is better than CC as a harness in almost every respect.
Anthropic limiting Claude subs to Claude code is what pushed me away in the end because I wanted to keep using Pi.
Just sign up for an AWS account and use the Anthropic models through Bedrock which Pi can use.
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Can you enumerate why?
- Claude Code has repeatedly had enormous token wastage bugs. Its agent interactions are also inefficient. These are the cause of many of the reports of "single prompt blew through 5-hour quota" even though it's a reasonable prompt.
- It still lacks support for industry standards such as AGENTS.md
- Extremely limited customization
- Lots of bugs including often making it impossible to view pre-compaction messages inside Claude Code.
- Obvious one: can't easily switch between Claude and non-Claude models
- Resource usage
More than anything, I haven't found a single thing that Pi does worse. All of it is just straight up better or the same.
I thought the desktop app used the cli app in the background?