I have an Anthropic API key for work, and if I use sonnet/opus all day for agent coding, it ends up costing about ~$25.

I am going to need more cpu/ram to run multiple agents in parallel to spend much more than that.

That was the breaking point, I cancelled my subscription.

As it happens I had a low coding workload over the past two weeks so I've been noodling around in PI mostly with Gemini Flash api. I like it - I even agree it's a much better harness than CC. However, the lock in is real. Even without switching models which each have their own quirks, I expect my work speed to drop drastically for at least a week or two even if I was focused on it fully. But after the learning period I think pi will be faster. The danger of course is that CC is fairly on rails while with PI you could end up spending all your time tinkering with the harness.

You can't do any serious work on it without rationing your work and kneecapping your workflows, to the point where you design workflows around anthropic usage limit woodoo rather than what actually works.

Without this, I run into WEEKLY usage limits on $200 plan, working on a single codebase, one feature at a time, on just day 3.