Notes from the build

Engineering logs and product thinking from the team building Pier, in the open.

16 June 2026
Building an India-native terminal coding agent
Why we built Pier on sovereign Indian models, what it does well today, where it's still maturing, and the economics that make a $5 month possible.

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Use cases

Watch the agent work through real tasks, terminal and all.

About Pier

Why a coding agent is mostly harness, and how we build it.

Cost per task

What a finished coding task actually costs.

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