{"slug": "show-hn-train-claude-code-s-replacement-ds4-and-pi-and-aoe", "title": "Show HN: Train Claude Code's replacement (ds4 and pi and aoe)", "summary": "A developer is building an open-source tool to observe and distill Claude Code agents' behavior into a cheaper AI model, effectively creating a backup that eliminates the need for Claude's subscription or API fees. The project, hosted on a GitHub repository, uses the DeepSeek V4 Flash repo as a foundation and aims to replicate Meta's approach of monitoring employee activity for AI efficiency gains. The work invites community collaboration to explore teaching smaller LLMs through this distillation process.", "body_md": "Remember how Meta monitored employee activity closely for a few months, and then had a bunch of layoffs related to AI efficiency? (oh right that was like 3 days ago).\n\nWhat if you could do the same thing to your workforce of Claude Code agents? Aka use Claude Code to observe and distill how to make a different AI model/harness work nearly as well, so that then you don't need Claude anymore? If AI is doing it to humans in the workforce, why can't we do the same thing to AI... I love Claude but it's always good to have a backup, in case, say, the subscription plan goes away and you're expected to pay for the API usage rates.\n\nIf you'd like to follow along, discuss, or contribute, this is the repo where the work is going. I'm working on this using the DeepSeek V4 Flash repo but it would be interesting to see how the process works if trying to teach a smaller LLM.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326539](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326539)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-train-claude-code-s-replacement-ds4-and-pi-and-aoe", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/njbrake/dotpi/tree/main", "published_at": "2026-05-29 17:38:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-29 17:47:08.151640+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models", "ai-agents", "ai-tools", "ai-research"], "entities": ["Meta", "Claude Code", "Claude", "DeepSeek V4 Flash"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-train-claude-code-s-replacement-ds4-and-pi-and-aoe", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-train-claude-code-s-replacement-ds4-and-pi-and-aoe.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-train-claude-code-s-replacement-ds4-and-pi-and-aoe.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-train-claude-code-s-replacement-ds4-and-pi-and-aoe.jsonld"}}