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.
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
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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.
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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.
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We surpassed five million installations of Cline across VS Code, JetBrains, Cursor, Windsurf, and other editors through OpenVSX.
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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
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If you have an OpenAI subscription, you can now use it directly in Cline without managing API keys
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Cline now offers comprehensive Jupyter Notebook support, giving data scientists the same AI-assisted experience that developers have come to expect – but designed specifically for how notebooks actually work.
Cline 3.51.0 is now available. This release adds support for OpenAI GPT‑5.2 Codex. OpenAI GPT‑5.2 Codex (gpt-5.2-codex) Cline 3.51.0 adds support for OpenAI GPT‑5.2 Codex (gpt-5.2-codex). OpenAI positions GPT‑5.2 Codex as an agentic coding model optimized
Most AI coding tools require sending code through their servers. For healthcare systems protecting patient records, banks safeguarding transaction data, and defense contractors working with sensitive or classified code, that approach fails immediately. Security teams block the tool. Developers revert to manual workflows. Productivity drops, not because AI is ineffective,
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Biweekly livestream every other Thursday at 9 am PT. One hour of Cline updates, industry expert guests, and Q&A.
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Cline 3.48.0 adds Skills compatibility. If you've already built Skills, you can now use them in Cline. This release also adds websearch tooling through the Cline provider, giving Cline access to real-time information when you need it. Skills Think about how you'd onboard a
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One of the most common pieces of feedback we hear: "I want to keep coding while Cline works." When Cline edits a file, it opens the diff view and takes your cursor along with it. That's fine when you're watching Cline work, but not