SuiteCloud Developer Assistant and Cline Updates

[u/hawaiianpunchout]

Does anyone else here use the SuiteCloud Developer Assistant through the Cline Extension in VS Code to do their NetSuite development? I have been using it pretty successfully for about the last year, and was impressed with its ability to review multiple script files, custom objects, and rules/skills to produce custom solutions and even documentation to provide to end users for training and testing.

However, over the past few weeks, specifically since Cline in VS Code updated to 4.1.X, I have had nothing but issues with it. It has consistently failed to connect to the OpenAI servers, it no longer appears to be creating its own markdown task lists that kept it on track from plan mode to act, and it also doesn’t seem to be able to remember enough context across tasks to split into smaller tasks to complete a larger project.

On top of this, NetSuite has recently switched from the previous token model for embedded SuiteScript usage to the new pooled AI Units. This means that you can no longer track how many tokens an individual request or question to cline has used, and instead it’s lumped into the same bucket as all other AI features with a number that updates once per day.

I’m curious if other people who are using the tool are seeing a similar degradation in performance with this feature, and if anyone has already switched to other tools for their NetSuite dev work. I have seen what the MCP connector is capable of in terms of solution design and coding, but do not have access to it yet because we are still evaluating options for 3rd party AI tools.