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Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software so fascinating
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Mario Zechner is the creator of Pi, a minimalist, self-modifying AI coding agent, that is the foundation upon which OpenClaw (created by Peter Steinberger) is built. Meanwhile, Armin Ronacher is the creator of Flask, and a longtime user of Pi. The pair are also friends.
I sat down with Mario and Armin for the latest episode of the Pragmatic…
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