Every few years, something shifts in how we write code and our workflows quietly adapt. Version control changed how we think about saving work. Code review changed how we think about readability. CI/CD changed how we think about testing. Now AI coding agents are changing something we barely think
An open-source coding agent rebuilt for the terminal, with free models to get started.
MiniMax just released M2.5. It's available now in Cline across VS Code, JetBrains, Zed, Neovim, Emacs, and the Cline CLI. MiniMax is offering M2.5 for free for a limited time, so there's no barrier to trying it out.
Last week, hundreds of developers descended on Frontier Tower in San Francisco for ClawCon – and it was unlike any tech event I've been to. Laptop tattoos. Lobster merch flying off tables. The kind of energy that only happens when open source builders get together to celebrate something they
Anthropic's most intelligent model is now in Cline. We've been testing Claude Opus 4.6 across the extension and the CLI. Here's why we're calling it The Deep Thinker.
I watched a developer waste $200 in API tokens one afternoon. Not because they were building something trivial – they were tackling important infrastructure work. Not because they were inexperienced – they had 15 years of backend development under their belt. The problem was simpler and more frustrating: they weren't
Redesigned terminal UI, better support for running parallel agents, ACP integration for Zed/Neovim/Emacs, and free Kimi K2.5 access (and more to come) during the release.
A premium car today contains over 100 million lines of code -- more than a fighter jet, more than Facebook's entire codebase. AI coding assistants promise to help close the productivity gap. But most get rejected before they reach a single developer's machine.
We surpassed five million installations of Cline across VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf, and other editors through OpenVSX.
Cline 3.55 adds two open models worth paying attention to. Arcee Trinity Large is free, US-built, and licensed under Apache 2.0. Kimi K2.5 is an open-source model that outperforms Opus 4.5 on certain benchmarks.
There's a growing assumption that AI coding assistants are fundamentally incompatible with regulated environments. This belief usually stems from how most AI tools are architected, not from AI-assisted development itself. Security constraints in these environments are real and non-negotiable. Restricted networks, strict compliance requirements, long approval timelines, and
If you have an OpenAI subscription, you can now use it directly in Cline without managing API keys