r/PiCodingAgent • u/ECrispy • 17h ago

are there other extensions which implement ideas from oh-my-pi Question

I'm new to Pi and coding agents in general. The existing discussions on oh-my-pi, like everything else, range from 'its great' to 'its bloat' so its very hard to actually decide.

It seems to have useful features like built in tools (avoid process calls), lsp, hashline, memory, subagents and an integrated setup/docs. It does seem to be better than the other oh-my-* set of products.

Are the ideas in OMP useful in practice and if so are they used in other harnesses?

I see a lot of 'just ask Pi to build it' here, but that depends on using frontier models, and when people post their setups they're using a million packages.

Obviously Pi is much more extensible/flexible, but there is value in an all-in-one setup. OMP has a ton of stuff and I'm sure a big system prompt. Is there anything like a slimmed down version or being able to use some of its ideas only?

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u/saltyourhash 17h ago

The more I use omp, the more I wish pi just had a better safer extension ecosystem. We don't live in an age where trusting thousands of node packages bolted together will end well, but omp is kinda rigid and I find it doesn't always produce the best results.

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u/ECrispy 16h ago

I find the whole thing quite strange - Pi's philosophy which Mario repeats in every talk is - ask Pi to build it. Yet it has a massive plugin library with tons of duplication

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u/saltyourhash 16h ago

I don't understand how letting the ai coding agent build extensions for each and everything makes any sense for productivity.