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Change the harness, keep your workflow

Mario Zechner & Armin Ronacher · 2:20 · English audio

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  1. Adapt the harness to the person

    Different working habits motivate a customizable harness. Pi extensions can be written and reloaded in the current session, with immediate feedback guiding the next revision.

  2. An agent that knows how to extend itself

    Armin describes how Pi directs the agent to its own documentation and examples, helping it create tools that support hot reloading from a user’s request.

  3. Turn repeated tasks into a custom interface

    A review command can present choices for uncommitted changes, a single commit or changes against the main branch. Repeated interactions can become tailored extensions.

  4. Build the features your workflow needs

    A to-do extension illustrates how documentation, examples and APIs let users add capabilities themselves instead of depending entirely on a vendor’s release schedule.

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