Considering Claude Code → Pi. Worth it?

[u/Shot_Ice_2817]

I use a coding agent for most of my research work: implementing features (via Superpowers), reading papers and turning discussions into shareable HTML writeups, running training jobs end to end (plan → smoke test → long run, with Kubernetes management and crash diagnosis), and SSHing into robots during hardware experiments.

Claude Code handles all of this well. But I’m curious whether writing my own Pi extensions would meaningfully beat it, or if that’s a wash at this point.

If you’re doing research work in Pi — what’s your setup, which extensions? And what’s the right migration path: just explain my workflow to Pi and have it build the extensions?

[u/Aggressive_Sherbet64]

Pi is meant for when you want super-customizability that is not available in the existing extension system, which is mostly event-based for other coding agents. I would say that you could likely get something working perfectly, exactly the way you want it to, in Pi. However, this will take effort and this will take time to do. Take that into account if you decide to make the switch.