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Rizwan: Maintaining a VS Code fork is notoriously difficult and resource-intensive
“No, I actually like pity anybody that has to fork VS Code because Microsoft makes it like notoriously difficult to maintain these forks. So a lot of resources and efforts go into just maintaining, keeping your fork up to date with all the updates that VS Code …”
Rizwan: AI coding agent memory systems are currently "mostly useless"
“I think memories right now for the large part are mostly useless.”
Rizwan: Early Copilot and Cursor were built for one-shot prompting
“That's really different from how the, you know, the other things at the time were things like copilot and cursor and Adr. They didn't do this for like step by step reasoning and accomplishing tasks. They were more suited for the Q and A and one shot prompting …”
Rizwan: Cline invented the 'plan and act' developer interaction paradigm
“I'm going to take
The cred for coming up with plan act first.
And then we were, Klein was the first to sort of come up with this concept of having two modes for the developer to engage with.”
Rizwan: Extensions face less enterprise approval friction than standalone IDEs
“Being an extension, it reduces a lot of the onboarding friction for a lot of developers where they don't have to, you know, install a whole new application or have to, you know, go through whatever internal jumping through hoops to try to get something approve…”
Rizwan: Background, parallel, and interactive AI agents will complement each other
“I think background agents are good for certain kinds of work and parallel Kanban. Multi agents might be good for when you want to experiment and iterate on, you know, five different versions of, you know, how a landing page might look and then something like a…”
Rizwan: MCP turns Cline into a general-purpose 'everything agent'
“Even though it's a VS Code extension and a coding agent, MCP kind of lets it function as this everything agent where it can connect to, you know, whatever services and things like that. And that's really a side effect of having very general prompts just in the…”
Swyx: Open-source coding tool Cline is announcing a Series A
“And they're announcing their A today.”