@indie_maker_fox: If you haven't tried Pi or Craft agent yet, I suggest you give it a try now. You'll immediately understand what I meant last month when I said that. I've said before: In the future, programmers will no longer mainly 'take requirements', but 'make agents'. Agents are used to distill your abilities: just make your requirements clear...

If you haven’t tried Pi or Craft agent yet, I suggest you give it a go right now. You’ll immediately understand what I meant last month when I said that.

I’ve said it before: In the future, programmers will no longer mainly “take requirements” but “build agents.” An agent is used to distill your capabilities: you just explain what you need, and leave the rest to it.

If you want to study how to build a code agent, don’t start from scratch—start directly from Pi agent. Its extensibility is excellent, and integrating it into existing workflows will save you a ton of time.

If you want to build a product similar to Codex Desktop, start with Craft agent. It’s based on Pi agent and Claude agent, with full functionality and broad coverage.

If it feels complicated, that’s fine: trim where you can. Claude Agent SDK, messaging-gateway, and the like can all be cut down—what remains is the solid core capability.

I’ve already used it to build a new product called Echo, which connects to a skill marketplace with a very smooth workflow. It’s now my indie development buddy—I run all subsequent development and operations on it.

Indie Fox (@indie_maker_fox): We’re almost halfway through 2026, and here are the best things I’ve been using so far:

1. Pi: open-source coding agent (think of it as Claude Code)

2. Craft: open-source agent (think of it as Claude Cowork)

3. Cloudflare: cyber bodhisattva—too many undiscovered gems

4. TanStack: indeed a better and faster full-stack framework than Next.js

If you combine them together, you can do just about anything!