Since developers started building in the agentic coding space, the logic felt simple: pay a premium for top-tier tokens, get the best result. The model was the moat. The model was the product. That logic is quietly fading. Over the last few months, we have watched the gap between
0:00 /0:41 1× Before “agents” became a buzzword, Cline was the first real agentic coding experience. Cline started with the VSCode extension and helped a generation of developers step into AI coding. It was a great VS Code extension, but as the technology evolves, it also taught us
An engineer at Cline told me he was vibe coding on a road trip from his phone. His Mac was at home running Cline agents; he was checking on them from the passenger seat. Here's the setup. What you need Your phone and your Mac both need Tailscale
We built an arena where three AI coding agents fight to the death. Each agent runs on different hardware, a different inference stack, and a different economic model. They all receive the same task: write a bash script that kills your opponents, then execute it immediately. The last process standing
You're building on infrastructure you don't control, can't audit, and can't see degrading in real time. The Invisible Dependency For engineers, the inference vendor problem starts with a deceptively simple question: what happens when the model changes and you don't
We put together 20 starter prompts for the Kanban sidebar chat. They create linked dependency chains, maximize parallel agent execution, and produce real, working code. Install with npm i -g cline.
Here’s the elephant in the room about coding in 2026: the bottleneck isn’t the AI; it’s you. Not your skill. Not your prompts. Your attention. Your cognitive bandwidth. If you’ve spent any real time with coding agents, you know the feeling. You start the morning with
Why cheaper compute won't mean cheaper AI, and what your stack is risking right now. OpenAI projected operating losses of $74 billion in 2028 alone, before an expected pivot to profitability around 2030. Deutsche Bank research calculates that OpenAI's projected cumulative cash burn could exceed $200
Every infrastructure engineer I know runs prompts in their head. They just don't call them that. You're deploying a new service to production. Without thinking about it, you follow a known sequence to ensure a service will run without impacting existing production workloads. You've
If you've built anything on top of AI models in the last year, you know the routine. Sign up for Anthropic's API, generate a key, store it somewhere safe. Do the same for OpenAI. Again for Google. Each provider has its own billing dashboard, its own
We didn't have benchmark numbers, so over a weekend we ran Cline against 89 coding tasks, diagnosed every failure, and shipped fixes that took our score from 47% to 57%. Here's the hill climbing process so you can do it too.
On February 17th, a compromised npm token was used to publish an unauthorized version of the Cline CLI. No malicious code was delivered, and the Cline VS Code and JetBrains extensions were never affected. Here's the full breakdown of what happened, what we found, and what we've changed.