3 sessions on pi-ai with a coding agent: the agent failed at least once in 2, and 1 finished without a human stepping in.
Takeaway: I got sidetracked asking the agent about its own thinking blocks and context files instead of pushing forward on the actual todo app design, so next time I'd hold off on meta-questions until after getting a concrete plan or prototype out of it.
Takeaway: I'd start the next prompt by giving it the exact gh pr create body as a file from the start, since inline multi-line strings with backticks in bash keep breaking the command.
Takeaway: Next time I'd point straight at Pi's own compaction implementation as the reference from the start, since checking 'what does Pi do' twice (for token budgeting and for the temperature/reasoning conflict) was what actually resolved both the context % bug and the mysterious /compact 400 error.