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Cole Medin Wants the AI to Write the Code. He Still Wants Someone to Check the Work.
The Minneapolis developer built an audience by showing how AI agents work. Now, through Dynamous, Archon and an open-source software factory, he is asking what it takes to trust them with the whole job.
Varun Mohan Kept Rewriting the Plan
He turned a profitable GPU business into Codeium, then gave the coding assistant its own editor. After Windsurf’s abrupt 2025 split, Mohan took the same question to Google DeepMind: how much of building software can an agent actually do?
Saoud Rizwan
Saoud Rizwan is the founder and CEO of Cline, an open-source AI coding agent that runs inside code editors like VS Code. He built the first version in June 2024, about ten days after Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet, as a side project for the company's Build with Claude hackathon. He didn't win, but the project caught fire online and Cline has since passed millions of installs and raised $32M in seed and Series A funding from Emergence Capital and Pace Capital. Before Cline, Rizwan was a prolific iOS and Swift open-source developer. His pitch is unusually blunt for the AI era: Cline captures zero margin on AI usage, shows developers exactly what each request costs, and lets them bring their own models.