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  1. KronisLV · · focus · HN ↗
    I feel the same way about needing support for sub-agents, those feel pretty foundational to me.

    I suspect that a smart model driving multiple dumber models for work and then using sub-agents with the same smart model for adversarial review will be a pretty common pattern.

    Personally, I got a bit confused about Pi having most of that stuff as plugins since I remember how much of a mess Eclipse was where so much was just loosely fitting together plugins and just went with OpenCode since it covers most of my needs out of the box. Guess that might also be a sign of me getting older, because my IDEs and desktop environments are all closer to stock too.

    1. surgical_fire · · focus · HN ↗
      It's actually the main reason I chose Pi.

      I did create some extensions where it spawns sub agents for specific tasks, especially when I want to keep the context clean or when I really want to offload a piece of work to a cheaper model. And for that I have a high degree of control over, I know which model is being used for each subtask.

      I find Claude Code too unwieldy for my tastes. Pi's philosophy of being very light on features nut highly flexible for customization, clicked very well for the way I work.

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