'Carrot,' a Korean AI Coding Tool, Unveils Future Vision at First Meetup

## Domestic Open Source AI Coding Tool ‘Caret’ Unveils Roadmap Targeting Enterprise and Education Markets Caret, an open-source AI coding tool born from domestic technology, successfully held its first technical meetup on the 15th, announcing a detailed technological roadmap to target the enterprise and education markets. Caret was developed to address the concerns of companies hesitant to adopt global services due to high costs and the risk of source code leakage in the rapidly expanding AI development environment. Currently available through the VS Code Marketplace, it aims to be a domestic AI coding tool that developers can control transparently and securely. Caret's core technology is based on 'Cline,' a global top 5 AI coding tool also chosen by Samsung Electronics. Having secured stability and scalability through this, Caret did not stop there, but maximized performance and reduced costs through its own system prompt improvements. Furthermore, by complementing its hard-coding structure to implement perfect multilingual support, it is accelerating its entry into the global enterprise and education markets. In particular, Caret has secured competitiveness in the next-generation AI coding education market with a differentiated strategy that adds fun to coding by applying unique character personas, such as Pulse9's virtual idols 'Eternity' or 'OS-Tan,' to its AI agents. Long-term visions were also presented at this meetup. These include plans to develop its own AI model that learns the code generation process to understand the entire project context, and research into new development methodologies optimized for the AI era. The active participation of experienced developers and in-depth discussions on future development directions further highlighted Caret's potential. Project founders, developers Kim Ki-hwan and Yang Byeong-seok, established 'Carettive' for the efficient operation of the open-source project. They emphasized, "Caret aims to be a sustainable AI coding platform that goes beyond merely imitating foreign technology, by solving companies' cost and security issues," and expressed their ambition to "create an AI development tool optimized for global development environments, beyond Korea, through open collaboration with domestic developers."