# A Hacker News essay on leaving Claude Code for the Pi agent renews the contest over who owns the coding harness

Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Opus 5 on agentic coding in about half the turns and output tokens at $4 and $20 per million tokens, and Pi can drive that model or a rival's through four built-in tools.

- Published: 2026-11-08T06:30:20.452Z
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- Sources: [Hacker News (caleb.software)](https://caleb.software/posts/claude-to-pi.html), [Anthropic News](https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5), [Composio](https://composio.dev/blog/pi-agent-vs-claude-code)

A developer essay titled "Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi" drew discussion on Hacker News on November 8. Pi is a minimalist, open-source terminal coding agent built by developer Mario Zechner. It works with several model providers and ships four b…

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