Pi Agent

There’s a kind of shift occurring beneath software development right now. It has now become almost trivial to spin up a project that I wouldn’t have had time for not so long ago. I wrote about the benefits of AI slop a couple weeks ago, and it turns out that I only really scratched the surface. One of these is in support of the Save Wisdom Project championed by Brian Roemmele.

I’ve been “busy” fiddling around with agentic coding using the Pi agent. This time around, it’s to see what the real limits of a local agent and model truly are. Why? I ran out of Claude tokens on an unrelated project, and that made me wonder just how far I could get without using it in a pinch. As it turns out… local models are pretty limited, but functional with enough planning.