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1. distantsounds · 1790886933 · focus · HN ↗

   "hundreds of thousands" of people are not using this. i want to see the this claim backed up.

   1. Wheen · 1790888751 · focus · HN ↗

      I think you're right, but in the wrong direction. I'd imagine it's closer to a million.

      - It has 3.6 million weekly NPM downloads.

      - 110k GH stars.

      - It's 5th (and its fork is 6th and a dependent is 8th) in monthly Openrouter tokens. Add them all together and they get close to Claude Code numbers.

      1. oblio · 1790889844 · focus · HN ↗

         Millions?

         There are maybe 30-60 million software developers and software developer adjacent people on this planet. Out of those probably 30% are late AI adopters, laggards, that haven't even used a terminal client and some don't even use AI.

         Also a lot of people - developers included, just don't like command line tools.

         Then pi is a secondary harness after Claude, Codex, OpenCode. I imagine the likelihood of pi having more than a few hundreds of thousands of users is remote. It's basically the Emacs or Vim of harnesses.

         1. razster · 1790891047 · focus · HN ↗

            We package Pi w/ Qwen3.6 35B-A3B configures with our software, we're ramping up close to 500 clients, so there is our contribution.

            1. aitchnyu · 1790925885 · focus · HN ↗

               What kind of software?

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