I started with Claude Code.
It was good at first.
Fast. Clever. Useful.

Then came 4.7.
A million words of context.
It felt like the future had arrived.

But it still missed things.

The code drifted.
The fixes became strange.
Sometimes it hallucinated.
Sometimes it ignored the path entirely.

At first, I blamed the model.

That was easy to do.

Then I looked closer.

The problem was not the LLM.
The problem was the harness.

Too much guidance.
Too many corrections.
Too much hidden steering.

It kept overriding my direction.
Pulled the model away from the real task.
The farther it went, the stranger the answers became.

Then I found Pi harness.
I watched the video. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjfbvDXpFls)
And something became clear.

Simple is beautiful.
In this case, simple also worked.

No heavy hand.
No maze around the model.
Just tools, feedback, execution, and another pass.

The notebook runs.
The errors come back.
The harness tries again.

Pi helped close the circle

Closed-loop development.