tl;dr: A longtime Claude Code user is switching to Pi, citing frustrations like Claude Code's late AGENTS.md support, broken multi-tab IDE integration, buggy VSCode extension, bloated system prompts (the Bash tool alone uses ~3,000 tokens), and 244 releases this year that constantly churn system prompts. The author argues Claude Code lacks product vision, feeling like engineers piling on features without someone empowered to say "no." Pi's stability, minimalism, and extensibility won them over — they built a missing multi-tab feature as an extension in 20 minutes.