Cascade
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Ramachandran: Cascade goes further than any other agentic system
“This allows Cascade to be independent, but Cascade takes it further than any other agentic system. By also generating commands to be run.”
Ramachandran: Coding agents needing constant human fixes are unready for autonomy
“If the agent there has to always get human involvement to keep on fixing itself, it's probably not ready to become a full end-to-end automated system, because then we're just going to turn into a linter where, like, it produces a bunch of things and no one loo…”
Ramachandran: Executing terminal commands in Cascade will be a huge unlock
“Vern's talked about not just suggesting the terminal command, but actually executing them. Like, I think that's gonna be a huge unlock.”
Hou: Chat interfaces are a legacy paradigm being replaced by AI agents
“We only have an agent, and it's called Cascade inside of Windsurf. Chat is a legacy paradigm, and we completely replaced it, and as you can see here, users are enjoying it, or in fact, they might not even know the difference, but they're just enjoying the high…”
Hou: 90% of code written by Windsurf users is generated by Cascade
“All of our users, 90% of the code that they're writing is generated with Cascade. That's an astonishing number. Autocomplete was more in like the 20, 30%.”
Ramachandran: Autonomous terminal command execution will be a huge unlock
“I mean, of course, I mean, Vern's talked about not just suggesting the terminal command, but actually executing them. Like, I think that's gonna be a huge unlock.”