@boringmarketer: if you want Fable level performance NOW, the answer is to build your own coding harness here's how I'm doing it (in a l…
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A guide on building a personal coding harness using Pi, Codex, and OpenRouter to achieve top frontier performance without heavy frameworks.
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if you want Fable level performance NOW, the answer is to build your own coding harness
here’s how I’m doing it
(in a lightweight Pi-native way rather than a heavy Superpowers/Compound clone)
first, I think we’re going to see PERSONAL HARNESSES that derisk single model reliance, help users save money, and squeeze top frontier performance out of homegrown systems
The best engineers I know already do this…
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Use Pi, the open source coding harness that you can make your own and access any model from
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Set 5.5 codex as your default model
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Deeply analyze publicly available system prompts (guess which model I looked at?)
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Feed Codex context on Loop Engineering and other engineering skill repos
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As it to improve efficiency as a lot of engineering repos are super heavy and bloated/slow
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Ask it to use FUSION via Openrouter for planning, logic, and review tasks
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Ask it to use Kimi k2.7 code for subagents/execution
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Have it dog food the harness until it’s dialed in then unleash it on a repo for a deep analysis
Nice!
Very cool will check it out!
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