Mohan: Non-developer AI coding tools and developer AI IDEs will converge
Varun Mohan · Windsurf CEO & Co-Founder, Varun Mohan: AI's Biggest Acquisition to Date! · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Jun 2, 2025 · at 14:52
Varun Mohan is the CEO and co-founder of Windsurf. He addresses whether non-technical app builders (Lovable, Bolt) and developer IDEs (Windsurf, Cursor) will compete and converge.
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“I think with time, they're going to need to build out more and more tunables, more and more ways to configure the product with time. But I think for us, if we can deeply understand code, like large code bases, it'll naturally follow that with very little effort, Non-technical people can build apps. But maybe my point is, if we build for that use case right now, it's, we're gonna be kind of forgoing the ability to help developers, but I think it will converge. It will converge with time, ah, between both of these categories.”
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