if you’re a twitter microcelebrity in sf you get pr packages from coding agent startups

Here's why we decided to (1) make Cline open source and (2) not make inference reselling part of our business model: When you control the inference (the AI model calls) and we build the harness (the system directing those calls), neither party can obscure what's happening. You see exactly which models are called, how much context is used, what decisions are made. We can't quietly degrade performance to improve margins because you're paying the inference provider directly. This separation means we succeed only when Cline becomes more capable. Not when we find clever ways to reduce your token usage. Not when we route to cheaper models without telling you. Not when we artificially limit context windows. The result: Cline uses the right model for each task (as defined by you), integrates any tool you need via MCP, and operates without arbitrary constraints. You get pure, unfiltered access to AI capability. We built this way because when incentives align correctly, you don't need to trust us. The architecture itself guarantees we're working toward the same goal: the most powerful AI coding experience possible. The bottom line is that Cline gives you the best possible performance out of the best models, full-stop.

v excited to see where we go from here with os models

In our internal "Hard" diff editing benchmark for cases where a frontier model previously failed a diff edit (prior to our diff algorithm updates), Kimi surpassed Claude 3.5. Will be interesting to see the results from our "Nightmare Difficulty" benchmarks in the next few weeks.

I'd like to point out that for the real world tasks (not benchmarks), Kimi K2 outperforms Gemini. This is telemetry across all @cline users, showing diff edit failure rate. Notice how Kimi has about a 6% failure rate, which is significantly better than Gemini's ~ 10% error rate. Remarkably, Kimi even surpassed Claude 4 for most of this week, achieving a sub 4% failure rate!

everyone that's getting a little black box in the coming few weeks is a real one

hmmm i’ve been gifted a mysterious box with my name on it

Here's how you can use the @huggingface provider in Cline 🤗 (thread)

🤗🤗🤗 🤗❤️🤗 @huggingface & Cline = your LLM playground 🤗🤗🤗 You can access Kimi K2 & 6,140 (!) other open source models in Cline.

many such cases glad you made the switch to @cline!