I’m excited to announce a $32M raise for Cline (Seed + A), led by Emergence Capital & Pace Capital. Cline started as a hackathon project a year ago, and is now a community of 2.7M developers who value the power and transparency that come from bold decisions in how we build the product:

4 pictures 1. A year ago I was banging my head against the wall as a consultant in Chicago, half-timing at a Colectivo trying to build a product to escape my 9-5. I was pushing AI to its coding limits (because my skills were/are none) and became a Claude 3.5 Sonnet browser chat

Congrats to the Cline team. Great product. Can't wait to see how they invest that capital in making it better.

We raised $32M! It’s been a little over a year since Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released and the code generation capabilities of that model and all that have followed has ... uh... generated an explosion in models, tools for using them, and general economic activity. The market has

Who’s gonna tell him?

When Saoud Rizwan cut through the noise and brought me on as Head of Operations at Cline, the product already had 600k users with just him and Nick at the helm. We had a vision: transform this beloved open-source tool into a scalable business without compromising what made it special.

Congrats Saoud Rizwan & Cline team on the new round 🎉

What a beautiful journey Nick. Having you along with Daniel Steigman and Saoud Rizwan work out of our office in Cline's early days has been rewarding and inspiring--inspiring to witness your growth and success from a three person team into the force Cline is today. Onwards!

I can't believe my luck Cerebras is hosting qwen3-coder and you can use it in Cline (linked below) whoever is there in the sky, thank you

For the tariffs to work for every American, we will need a Ministry of Truth.

A hidden strength of gpt5 is that it excels at metaprompting. we've been working with the openai team to optimize Cline for gpt5, and at first it wasn’t very consistent about using our plan_mode_respond tool. Remarkably, I’ve found that simply asking gpt5 what we should

it hit me this morning that gpt-5 is winston wolfe for coding "i come in and I solve problems" -- that's how it feels it comes in, asks thorough questions to understand the mess, then just puts its head down. no theater, no exclamation points (!), just straight execution been

For AI coding, comparing OpenAI 's newly released GPT 5 to Anthropic 's Opus (using Cline ) shows that OpenAI is in a different league. Whereby Claude and Opus are fast and good at coding, GPT 5 is *all* about planning. It thinks and thinks (And is freakin slow) but then it

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via Chris Paik your power users should make your product better, not break your business model

Vibe-coding is not the same as AI-Assisted engineering. A recent Reddit post described how a FAANG team uses AI and it sparked an important conversation about semantics: "vibe coding" and professional "AI-assisted engineering". While the post was framed as an example of the

Recently I have met a number of 100x engineers. Here's what they have in common: 1. They typically started programming before vibe coding was possible--so they actually understand the code 2. They're vibe coding 99% of the time 3. Have 5-6 Claude Code or Cline windows open