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Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by alfiedotwtf on Sunday November 08, 2026 @12:37AM (#50410706)
Pi is awesome until compaction hits. I think one in every two compactions it’s failed on me ie didn’t know how to continue :(
Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by julianlam on Sunday November 08, 2026 @01:15AM (#50410868)
Try pi-vcc or pi-blackhole
Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by alfiedotwtf on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:16AM (#50411111)
Thanks! I’ve taken a look at Blackhole before but it looks way to complicated for what I wanted. I’ll check out VCC. Thanks again!
Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by alfiedotwtf on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:16AM (#50413020)
Yes.. pi-vcc does what no other compaction extension has managed to do - work!

Thank you!!

Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by esalman on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:03AM (#50411059)
I never really rely on compaction. Instead, I instruct the coding agents to maintain a handoff markdown document across sessions. Ymmv.
Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by alfiedotwtf on Sunday November 08, 2026 @02:16AM (#50411107)
What about if you’ve given a plan that will take hours? How do you tell how to auto-compact since it can’t read its own environment?
Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by pseudony on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:06AM (#50411579)
Cannot show now because Github times out for me, again.

I had pi write me a ralph loop plugin. You plan with it, it breaks it down into tasks. Task success means clearing the context - if it runs out of context, it clears and starts on the same task again (code changes from previous run are left intact).

Complete with little docker-like names for Ralph sessions and the ability to resume sessions should you need to.

Point is, I would generally do this because it costs less context I think, and better tracks progress.

Ping me if you are interested and want it. Otherwise, plenty around :)

Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by machomaster on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:10AM (#50411899)
Please share with me.
Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by pseudony on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:01AM (#50412523)
Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by alfiedotwtf on Sunday November 08, 2026 @05:16AM (#50411931)
Hehe yes please. I’m not sure how it will go mixing it with Superpowers, but your workflow sounds really useful. I like that it can recover from zero.. especially when I overclock ram and then hangs
Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by pseudony on Sunday November 08, 2026 @07:03AM (#50412530)
Hey, replying so it's easy for you to follow up on.

https://github.com/jwdevantier/ralphish

:)

Remember, I didn't write a word of it - so if anything is not to your liking, it's no harder than pointing a model at it to fix it. One of the many powers of Pi is the way plugin- and API documentation is bundled in.

Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by alfiedotwtf on Sunday November 08, 2026 @08:14AM (#50413011)
Nice. Thanks for the link :)
Re:Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi by pseudony on Sunday November 08, 2026 @04:01AM (#50411552)
Something is misconfigured on your end. I have had some trouble where parameters were incorrect, but otherwise I have used several vendors (local, openrouter, ollama cloud, kimi, deep seek) and it generally works.

Most likely context length parameters aren’t set quite right for your model/provider and you genuinely run out of context during compaction