Autonomous coding agent as an SDK, IDE extension, or CLI assistant.
Nov 2025 was a tipping point for AI coding with commercial frontier models. Aug 2026 is the beginning of the same thing for local AI. Pretty darned exciting.
Learn how Cline evaluates and improves open weight coding agents using Terminal Bench, with practical heuristics for model performance, token efficiency, reasoning, providers, and eval optimization.
At @cline we're on track to spend about $3M a year on inference for Kimi models. Everyone told us the same thing: it's open-weights, so just self-host and save.
We are making the updated DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731 free in Cline. This is the first flash model we've found performs at SOTA levels, and are excited for you to feel the new frontier. 1. npm i -g cline 2. Open /settings > Cline provider 3. Select deepseek-v4-flash
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