I'm a skeptic, but this weekend I worked with Cline in vscode (using free gemini nano backend and free mistral backend via openrouter) and managed to make some

I'm a skeptic, but this weekend I worked with Cline in vscode (using free gemini nano backend and free mistral backend via openrouter) and managed to make some progress on a flutter app I'm working on. Flutter/Dart isn't something I'm actually familiar with though I have a lot of dev experience, so I was able to distinguish between poor advice and good advice from the agent. There was a good share of frustrating code deletion happening that required stern instruction adjustment. For work I'd be concerned about sharing our IP and would want to be on an LLM tier that promises privacy, or maybe even a local LLM. All in all I was more impressed than I thought I would be.