Pi Is All You Need

February 2026

"The real value is in the lego pieces now being strong enough and fast enough to recompose on your own via prompting."

The Recognition Lag Is Compressing

Claude Code launched early 2025. It took the WSJ, The Atlantic, the stock market — everyone — roughly 10 months to grasp the impact.

I estimate Pi will take about 5 months. Half the time. Because people now understand agentic coding — Pi is the next layer up, and it's 10x more powerful because of composability.

Early 2025 Claude Code launches — developers notice immediately
Late 2025 WSJ, Atlantic, markets finally catch on (~10 mo.)
Mid 2026? Pi recognition — estimated ~5 months

Pre-Pi: Many Layers Required

Powerful, but you need all of this to get anything done

Agent (Claude Code / Cursor / Kiro / Amp / Warp / Codex) core
MCP Servers protocol layer
Agent Skills / Prompts behavior
RAG / Vector Stores knowledge
Tool Servers / API Wrappers integration
Model Provider Config infra

Many moving parts. Can't extend them with your own primitives.

Pi + Extensions = Everything

Pi is composable. That single difference replaces the entire stack.

Pi agent harness
+ Extensions everything else

That's it. Extensions are your MCP servers, your skills, your RAG, your tool integrations, your custom protocols. You go directly to the primitive and compose it yourself. No middlemen.

Example: Chrome DevTools

I wanted to port the Chrome DevTools MCP to Pi. Then I realized: just look at the underlying protocol — the Chrome debugging port — and interface with it directly through a Pi extension.

Cut out the middleman. Opus 4.6 is so strong it figures out complex system integration like this easily — where 4.5 would get stuck.

The Cambrian Explosion Is Accelerating

Speed × Composability

Things are insanely fast between the latest models and how well-composed Pi is. Claude Code was incredible. Pi as a refactor on top of it is incredible. Each layer compounds.

Pre-Claude Code
Claude Code
Claude Code + 4.5
Pi + 4.5
Pi + 4.6

Approximate capability / velocity over time

People Who Get It

Armin Ronacher on Pi — the future is agentic composition. See also his agent-stuff repo.

Tobi Lütke — called Pi "the most interesting agent harness" and the "dawn of the age of malleable software." A tiny core that writes plugins for itself as you use it, RLing itself into the agent you want.

The Lego Pieces Are Strong Enough

The individual building blocks — models, protocols, tools — are now strong enough and fast enough to recompose on your own via prompting. This is pretty incredible.

Chrome CDP
Opus 4.6
Pi Extensions
Filesystem
AWS Bedrock
Skills
Custom Tools
Prompt Templates
Themes

Compose, Don't Configure

With some experience in long-term architecture thinking, you can compose very sophisticated, strong applications using Pi to bootstrap yourself.

You don't need a team of 20. You need vision, architectural thinking, and the right composable pieces. The model figures out the plumbing.

We Just 2x'd Our Speed Toward the Singularity

The Halving Pattern

10 months for Claude Code. ~5 months for Pi. Each cycle doesn't just add capability — it halves the time to the next breakthrough.

That's not linear progress. That's the signature curve of approach to a singularity.

The Convergence

Recognition of Claude Code~10 months
Recognition of Pi (est.)~5 months
Next paradigm (est.)~2-3 months
After that...~weeks?
And then...continuous

Each layer compresses the cycle. The curve bends toward real-time.

It Won't Be What People Expect

There won't be a single dramatic moment where a machine "wakes up" and everything changes overnight.

It will be more mundane and more profound at the same time. It's someone building a sophisticated app in an afternoon that would have taken a team months. It's recognition cycles compressing until new capabilities are absorbed in real-time.

But It Will Also Be Somewhat Like People Anticipate

The magnitude of change is real. Individual developers with the right tools and architectural intuition will produce what used to require entire organizations.

The singularity isn't a moment — it's a phase transition we're already inside of. We just 2x'd our speed through it.

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