John Smathers

RisingTides dev
purposeful apps & agents in the music and digital marketing space

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

Fable 5 benchmarked a bunch of harnesses for me to test my rust harness I’m building and @theo I might owe you an apology, oh-my-pi is in fact bloatware (at least in my current configs) —- but I had gpt-5.6 blind grade the results. the initial results are impressive for Ocean and terrible for omp, codex, and opencode — I’ll need to test gpt-5.6 and fable 5 next and I’ll need to put the same exact model into Claude code to get true even results

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

Calling oh my pi slop is just a bad take

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

I built Ocean as a harness written in rust that is giving some interesting results benchmarked against Claude code, Codex, Pi, & oh-my-pi

Ocean is punching above its weight so far.

I will be adding a new marker — memory usage

Ocean is a lightweight daemon that runs on under 50mbs of memory

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

@thdxr Is there a way to register subagents to a specific model or is subagents a task tool tied to the main agent?

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

@atmikaw_chii I use pi for most of my scheduled tasks

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

Calling oh my pi slop is just a bad take

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

@kyle_mccleary Oh it did that because after installing it printed the ENTIRE CHANGELOG FROM DAY 1 and hosed my terminal.

I'm sorry but this is clearly slop and I will be removing it from my machine immediately.

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

@steveruizok i have and events.md that covers more general notes but im going to add this as and event type to the log tool- very smart

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

" if we give the subagents cute icons it wont hurt so bad to see all ur money get lit on fire"

[Tyler @rezoundous]

GPT-5.6 loves subagents

[Maximilian @maxedapps]

Thanks to pi, I now expect all my software to be self-improvable.

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

S-Tier: Fable 5
A- Tier: GPT 5.6sol, GLM 5.2
B- Tier :Opus 4.8, Grok 4.5, gpt-5.5
C- Tier : Deepseek-v4-pro, Sonnet-5, composer 2.5

I haven’t tried Terra or Luna enough to have a take

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

@konanlives @theo No. And I’m gonna keep glazing omp til anthropic bans it

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

If you’re strictly using Claude code or codex harness in July of the 2026th year of our lord then I fear ur ngmi

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

@hyojun_at I like that you can set allowances for all this in the settings menu of oh my pi

[dax @thdxr]

being in the loop is important

but i keep seeing people misunderstand this - your job isn't to micromanage the agent and get it to execute its steps in a way you think is better than what it'd do on its own

it's to come up with cool things for it to work on

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

Clanker duality

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

@theo I just like how I can tell fable in plain English which models to use or let fable choose based on cost benefit.. if that’s slop i guess i love slop

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

@benvargas @theo I’ve had a lot of issues with cmux too I’m back in kitty

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

@theo Did you use the bun installer ?

[John Smathers @risingtidesdev]

@theo Could we Create a hook on the task tool that routes subagents to user preferences ?