Thanks for the extensive write-up. It triggered me to start testing and see if I like it better then cursor. I'm testing it to transform designs into an angular solution (cursor has it's challenges with angular). It comes quite far but it has a very hard time to conform to the design I've inputted via images. Do you have any tips on how to achieve this? Next to that, I find that using openrouter with claude-3.5-sonnet the costs are quite high. A mockup of a signup form is costing ~$5. Are you running the models locally? Any tips on cost control?
I really like cline as well, in fact been using the roo-cline fork a fair abit too.
We recently shipped cline support in codegate, an opensource privacy and security project for working with cline, copilot, aider etc https://github.com/stacklok/codegate
Also highly recommend using the memory bank prompt (or one of its variants). Absolute game changer for any non-trivial task. Also get it to plan with mermaid diagrams. And also use the phrasing "are you 100% confident?" repeatedly when debugging.
Thank you for such detailed article, In may 9-5 job I'm almost using Intellij IDEA, but now trying to switch from IDEA to Zed Editor. I have question why you didn't include Zed in this comparison? :)
you left out Augment AI, it seems better than Cline in terms of suggestion and complex code wise. check it out and maybe you can do a review again comparing these two?
Articles like this keep me on this platform
Thank you Addy
It's my pleasure! I hope there was something in value of the write-up :)
Thanks for the extensive write-up. It triggered me to start testing and see if I like it better then cursor. I'm testing it to transform designs into an angular solution (cursor has it's challenges with angular). It comes quite far but it has a very hard time to conform to the design I've inputted via images. Do you have any tips on how to achieve this? Next to that, I find that using openrouter with claude-3.5-sonnet the costs are quite high. A mockup of a signup form is costing ~$5. Are you running the models locally? Any tips on cost control?
I really like cline as well, in fact been using the roo-cline fork a fair abit too.
We recently shipped cline support in codegate, an opensource privacy and security project for working with cline, copilot, aider etc https://github.com/stacklok/codegate
Also highly recommend using the memory bank prompt (or one of its variants). Absolute game changer for any non-trivial task. Also get it to plan with mermaid diagrams. And also use the phrasing "are you 100% confident?" repeatedly when debugging.
Thank you for such detailed article, In may 9-5 job I'm almost using Intellij IDEA, but now trying to switch from IDEA to Zed Editor. I have question why you didn't include Zed in this comparison? :)
stumbling on this , that's like mind blowing to me.
At the same time, encourage me to take a leap into learning the AI tools,
may that.. could change my current perspective, and unlock a new door.
Thank you Addy!
you left out Augment AI, it seems better than Cline in terms of suggestion and complex code wise. check it out and maybe you can do a review again comparing these two?
> DeepSeek-R1 for Planning ($0.55/M tokens) or models like Gemini
I'm not quite ready to use R1 cloud API.
Any ideas what size of R1 you use for planning on ollama or the Gemini equivalent? Is it 1.5 Pro?
You may find this helpful directly from Cline's new doc site: https://docs.cline.bot/getting-started/model-selection-guide
Great article, and I am glad you mentioned Roo Fork.
Thanks
This seems like the between sessions memory hint I was looking for.
I need to be able to onboard new agents quickly to the project without flooding context .
I'm a sloppy newb and
Not creating sequence diagrams nor Generating architectural documentation with R1
That's probably why I was hitting context limitations and getting stuck in loops even after attempting the project again with a fresh session...
Thanks
I'd read this articles directly from the Cline team on their new doc site:
https://docs.cline.bot/getting-started/understanding-context-management
https://docs.cline.bot/getting-started/model-selection-guide