Fwiw @dicklesworthstone / jeff Emanuel is definitely my favorite dragon rider ri...

saberience · 2026-02-25T09:49:43 1772012983

You should look at the code in that project. It’s terrible, I mean, really, really terrible.

It’s clear it was 100% written by Claude using sub-agents which explains the many classes with 5000 lines of rust in a single file.

It’s a huge buggy mess which doesn’t run on my Mac.

If you’re a rust engineer and want a good laugh, go take a look at the agent.rs, auth.rs, or any of the core components.

orangecoffee · 2026-02-25T13:02:45 1772024565

This matters less and less in the new world. that fact that a fully compatible 10x faster clone came up, and is continuously working and adapting/improving, tells you that this is hugely valuable. It has users and it's thriving.

Caring about taste in coding is past now. It's sad :( but also something to accept.

mr_mitm · 2026-02-25T13:40:26 1772026826

Unmaintainable messes of code are also hard to maintain for AI agents. This isn't solely about taste.

orangecoffee · 2026-02-25T14:43:10 1772030590

This projects huge commit list proves this wrong :(

mr_mitm · 2026-02-25T14:53:27 1772031207

The project also doesn't work. See my other comment.

Looks like a lot of nonsensical commits.

saberience · 2026-02-25T15:37:07 1772033827

Yeah, I tried to use this clone of pi for a while and its very, very broken.

First of all it wouldn't build, I have to mess around with git sub-modules to get it building.

Then trying to use it. First of all the scrolling behavior is broken. You cannot scroll properly when there are lots of tool outputs, the window freezes. I also ended up with lots of weird UI bugs when trying to use slash commands. Sometimes they stop the window scrolling, sometimes the slash commands don't even show at all.

The general text output is flaky, how it shows results of tools, the formatting, the colors, whether it auto-scrolls or gets stuck is all very weird and broken.

You can easily force it into a broken state by just running lots of tool calls, then the UI just freezes up.

But just try it and see for yourself...