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Ewald Benes
Personal blog · ewaldbenes.com/blogprogrammingproductivity
Ewald Benes's personal blog at ewaldbenes.com covers programming and productivity. Since 2023, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite the author's post as a summary of their experience using Pi, a minimal coding agent, which one says extends token windows a lot. None of the comments judge the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I second that from using Pi for two weeks now. It's not a little but a massive difference. My estimation is about 5-10x longer lasting token windows. Getting done more is just one of the benefits. I've briefly summarised my experience in this article: https://ewaldbenes.com/en/blog/the-only-coding-agent-you-ll-...
Comment linking /en/blog/the-only-coding-agent-you-ll-ever-need
on “What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent”Submitted My personal reasons to not run my Nginx reverse-proxy inside Docker as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI cannot recommend Pi enough: https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/tree/main/packages/codin... I'm working with it for about 2 weeks now and absolutely love it. I can't think of going back to Claude Code CLI, Codex or similar tools. Here's my experience in a nutshell: https://ewaldbenes.com/en/blog/the-only-coding-agent-you-ll-...
Comment linking /en/blog/the-only-coding-agent-you-ll-ever-need
on “What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent”Submitted Git is too complex for most of us as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why I Keep Business Logic Out of SQL as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Forget about Server Less as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why it is hard to generate beautiful HTML emails (from Markdown) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted You just need to – Reveal software complexity as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Optimize for developer cycles, not CPU cycles as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted My poor man's server setup you might laugh about as a story · 1 points
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