I am getting sick of Claude Code's 32k-token system prompt. Why isn't everyone on Pi's 1k?

I am getting sick of Claude Code eating up 32k tokens just via the system prompt. As they keep adding features, this only gets worse. With every new update, my system prompt grows larger, containing pointers to features I don't even care about. Don't get me wrong, I love Claude Code, but that has a huge impact on cost, latency and especially performance. Everything gets worse and worse. That's why I'm starting to like the philosophy behind Pi more and more — the agent harness that comes with a bare-bones coding agent: 4 tools: read, write, edit, bash the agent loop no permissions, MCP clients, subagents or any other fancy stuff Where the system prompt is 1k tokens and, if you want to add more functionality, you do it via plugins. Not polluting your current setup with each version update. Probably this is the only way to stay in control of your agent. Even though Claude Code and Codex have converged on the same idea in the past few weeks, dramatically reducing their system prompts by ~60%, I still feel this is an issue: everything becomes clunky because they try to solve everything via a single interface. But to get to this point, you have to truly understand how coding agents work under the hood and build the intuition behind what's going on. So you know what tools to use, what features to drop, and how to properly configure the whole setup without trimming essentials. Curious how you're feeling about the latest state of Claude Code or Codex? And what alternatives have you found so far — ones you truly enjoy that are actually feasible to use with their subscription, with no crazy hacks or workarounds?