Alejandro AO walks through the Pi Agent harness from first install to full customization — model switching, prompts, skills, themes, context files, TypeScript extensions, community packages, and tree-based session management.
Mario Zechner's talk at AI Engineer Conference — a 'tragedy in three acts': why he left Claude Code for radical context control, how minimal harnesses outperform complex ones (Terminal Bench), Pi's self-modifying architecture with 4 tools and a system prompt that fits on screen, the war against AI-generated garbage in OSS, and a passionate plea to slow down before agents drown your codebase in enterprise-grade complexity.
