Comment by dofm

> They do not have Claude. I use Pi and other harnesses, but it's not the same.

This is going to sound tautological but of course it's not the same, because it's different?

Participants in markets make their own choices from the available options, for their own reasons.

Another way to frame my point is this: not the same for whom? You are but one market participant, and it's at least wobbly thinking for any of us to assume that our set of needs is the archetype.

There's any number of harnesses and people have any number of preferences. Sure, overchoice of imperfect substitutes tends to entrench better-resourced, better-resourced (or better-marketed) alternatives, but it's not a slam dunk. Things come out of left field all the time.

(I mean from my own perspective, I like Pi — more than OpenCode. And the "betterness" of Claude or Codex over Pi, or their models over even Muse Glimmer or Qwen, is completely irrelevant to where I am now in terms of the needs I have. So I don't use either of them and I remain unfazed. When my needs change I will revisit, but the theoretical superiority of these products for the majority of users just isn't a factor in my decision, just like I don't care that any tool I use might not be the best for most people. You might think me insane but I'm no less a rational market participant than you.)