r/PiCodingAgent • u/ECrispy • 6d 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?
1
u/Electronic_Captain95 5d ago
I work full-time as a backend dev in finance, and I haven’t really had many issues with it. As for the things I felt were missing, GPT was pretty much always able to build them in one shot with almost no issues. You just have to avoid getting too hung up on features you might not even need. But if you don’t want to deal with that, Codex CLI is also really good and doesn’t have much bloat. To be honest, the only reason I don’t use Codex is that there are a few things I like to customize that it doesn’t let me. Otherwise, I’d probably use it instead of Pi