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If you are looking at open models, check out Pi, as its very extensible and comes with a sane default. Maybe even roll your own. Most harnesses (claude, codex,
by dgb23 6mo ago
If you are looking at open models, check out Pi, as its very extensible and comes with a sane default. Maybe even roll your own.
Most harnesses (claude, codex, opencode etc.) assume that you use a cloud model. There’s no sense of optimization or finer control.
- theshrike79 6mo agoI've been running pi.dev + codex (GPT-5.4) for a long time for my workhorse stuff. Actually tried caveman mode yesterday and it made everything SO MUCH BETTER. GPT-5.4 has a habit of being extremely verbose to a ridiculous degree, it's like it's writing a report for a CTO or something and padding everything as much as possible to sound smart. With caveman it just gives me lists of stuff in a compact format. Perfect.
- michaelcampbell 6mo agolet's be clear(er) here that you like caveman's format and output, so that's one value of "better". I've seen at least a few (n < 10, so there's that) tests on token use and for THAT value of "better" it's not much different.
- theshrike79 6mo agoThe token savings with caveman is completely secondary to me to be honest. What I appreciate is the terse answers it gives to me. I don't need a padded essay on what the issue is or what was fixed. Give me the bullet points.