Summary

Mario discusses his journey of building "pie" as an alternative to cloud code, highlighting the challenges he experienced with the platform's evolving complexity, frequent changes to system context, and lack of observability. He praises the cloud team's brilliance while critiquing their tool's increasing instability and tendency to modify context without clear communication. Ultimately, Mario decided to create his own solution that would provide more predictable and controllable development workflows, emphasizing the importance of stable, transparent development tools.