Comment by wiradikusuma
3 hours ago
That's interesting. I thought Claude Code is not as good, therefore people want to use Claude model with other alternatives. This is the other way around.
Which begs the question, regardless of the model, which Claude Code alternative is better? (I keep saying "Claude Code alternative" because I don't know the term... LLM CLI?)
AFAIK the two most popular open source harnesses right now are OpenCode and Pi. They take a pretty different approach, OpenCode includes a lot of features while Pi is very minimal by design and focused on extensibility, to the point where many people are just asking Pi to write a plugin for itself whenever they want it to have a new feature. I personally like Pi's philosophy more and I think its developer justified the choices really well in his blog post:
https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/#to... (the pi-coding-agent section)
Author blocks referrals from HN, weirdly dramatic, especially considering they have 1086 karma here. I wonder what we did to them.
Oh damn, I haven't noticed because my browser removes the referer header. But I think the image on the block page is a pretty good answer to why he did that.
The common term for a tool that wraps an LLM with a workflow is “harness”.
I love oh-my-pi, but I'm not sure if it's "better". Maybe just as good.
I use DeepSeek v4 flash with CoPilot and it works pretty good.