Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast

Cline: the open source coding agent that doesn't cut costs


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Saoud Rizwan and Pash from Cline joined us to talk about why fast apply models got bitter lesson'd, how they pioneered the plan + act paradigm for coding, and why non-technical people use IDEs to do marketing and generate slides.

Full writeup: https://www.latent.space/p/cline

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Chapters:

00:00 - Introductions
01:35 - Plan and Act Paradigm
05:37 - Model Evaluation and Early Development of Cline
08:14 - Use Cases of Cline Beyond Coding
09:09 - Why Cline is a VS Code Extension and Not a Fork
12:07 - Economic Value of Programming Agents
16:07 - Early Adoption for MCPs
19:35 - Local vs Remote MCP Servers
22:10 - Anthropic's Role in MCP Registry
22:49 - Most Popular MCPs and Their Use Cases
25:26 - Challenges and Future of MCP Monetization
27:32 - Security and Trust Issues with MCPs
28:56 - Alternative History Without MCP
29:43 - Market Positioning of Coding Agents and IDE Integration Matrix
32:57 - Visibility and Autonomy in Coding Agents
35:21 - Evolving Definition of Complexity in Programming Tasks
38:16 - Forks of Cline and Open Source Regrets
40:07 - Simplicity vs Complexity in Agent Design
46:33 - How Fast Apply Got Bitter Lesson'd
49:12 - Cline's Business Model and Bring-Your-Own-API-Key Approach
54:18 - Integration with OpenRouter and Enterprise Infrastructure
55:32 - Impact of Declining Model Costs
57:48 - Background Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
1:00:42 - Vision and Multi-Modalities
1:01:07 - State of Context Engineering
1:07:37 - Memory Systems in Coding Agents
1:10:14 - Standardizing Rules Files Across Agent Tools
1:11:16 - Cline's Personality and Anthropomorphization
1:12:55 - Hiring at Cline and Team Culture

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