Good afternoon from Vienna People of Pi โ๏ธ
Some slightly different Sunday meditations today in which @mitsuhiko talks about some shared frustrations with agentic software engineering.
Remember that you're not alone in finding it harder than it looks!
We learned two things: 1) /bug is being used 2) and the most common cause of crashes right now is the "pi-observational-memory" extension which has a bug that triggers in 0.86.0. Just a little heads up. You should disable that extension until that is resolved upstream.
This definitely has chances of regressions because of the mid-conversation system messages. We baked it for a while, but not many run it from main. If you discover problems, please, please let us know!
(There is also /bug now)
https://t.co/c8aCHJd9BO
Hello people of Pi. 0.86.0 is out now. It's a big one.
- mid-conversation system messages
- dynamic tools on supported models without losing the kv cache
- cache warming on anthropic
- faster -r/-c to resume
- lots of fixes
- /bug to report issues
https://t.co/zYjvRdkkUv
"Pi reaches the Pareto frontier on both benchmarks by providing just four tools: read, write, edit, and bash. To understand how harness design affects spending, we examine costs across completed attempts, recorded turn counts, and initial context."
Sharing this analysis on the Harness Tax by @MelissaPan and others.
https://t.co/1gA77p8Xgj
My co-founder Colin is not an engineer but he had Pi build a screen recording software to record himself showing off his exquisite slop skills! Unironically I find it kinda cool that you can do that. https://t.co/L5wW7tHLfe
My co-founder Colin is not an engineer but he had Pi build a screen recording software to record himself showing off his exquisite slop skills! Unironically I find it kinda cool that you can do that. https://t.co/L5wW7tHLfe