Windsurf
also referred to as: windsurf editor
includes Windsurf Cascade
39 statements across 10 episodes · 25 bullish · 4 bearish · 13 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2024 by Varun Mohan · said 209 times in 30 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by Kevin Hou (51), Shawn Wang (50), Varun Mohan (12), Anshul Ramachandran (8), Alessio Fanelli (8), Spooks (Swyx) (5), Saoud (Saud) Rizwan (3), Ronak Malde (3)
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2026 20 mentions in 3 episodes 7 per episode
- ⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio (acquired for $5B by Capital One!)
- every mention in 2026, scene by scene →
2025 168 mentions in 26 episodes 6 per episode
- 🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
- The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
- Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- ⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- 18 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 21 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Windsurf, oldest first
Dec 13, 2024 positive
Mohan: Windsurf uses Claude for planning, proprietary models for retrieval and diffs
“No, so actually the way it works is the high-level planning that is going on in the model is actually getting done with products like the Cloud. But the extremely fast retrieval, as well as the ability to, like, take the high-level plan and actually apply it t…”
Dec 13, 2024 positive
Dec 13, 2024 positive
Ramachandran: Tracking developer trajectory allows AI to infer intent without prompting
“If we're actually being able to understand the kind of the trajectory of what developers are doing within the editor, right, if we actually are being able to see, like, oh, the developer just went and opened up this part of the directory and tried to view it, …”
Dec 13, 2024 negative
Mohan: Codeium uses proprietary autocomplete models due to poor frontier LLM FIM
“The things like autocomplete and super complete that run on every keystroke are entirely like our own models. And by the way, that is still because properties like FIM fill in the middle capabilities are still quite bad with the current non-existent. They're a…”
Jan 17, 2025 positive
McAteer: Use coding assistants to bootstrap structured prompts from raw brainstorms
“What I do, and I think what you should do is use other prompts to sort of bootstrap your prompts. So like I have it set up in cursor or in windsurf where I was telling Alessio before we started, you basically, I have like a prompt template in a prompts directo…”
May 7, 2025 positive
Anthropic avoided building an IDE to target future AI model scaling
“If we want some product that has like very broad a product market fit today, we would build, you know, a cursor or a Windsurf or something like this. Like these are awesome products that so many people use every day. I use them. That's not the product that we …”
Jun 25, 2025 bullish
Jul 11, 2025 positive
Hsu: Speak mandates AI coding tools as default engineering workflow
“We try to set a culture in the engineering team where usage of these tools as much as possible and as a default path is the expectation. And in hiring We are now explicitly asking about this a lot, thinking about what are the types of people that are going to …”
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Wang: Windsurf employees received 10 to 12 poaching emails during merger weekend
“And I don't think it was reported, but like time was not our friend. We had customers like starting to email like, Hey, what's the, what's going to happen to the company. And we had recruiters. I think almost every employee probably got like 10 or 12 recruitin…”
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Hou: Future AI agents will anticipate developer actions dozens of steps ahead
“In the future, we'll be looking not just one to five steps in the future, but 10, 20, 30 steps into the future. It'll be writing unit tests before you've even finished defining the function. It'll be performing code-based-wide refactors on multiple files based…”
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Wang: Other companies and VCs sought deals with Windsurf before Cognition merger
“When Scott, when I talked to Scott, it was just like, Hey, this kind of makes sense. Like there was other companies. That were interested. There was actually VCs that wanted to invest. But Scott, as a person with Russell, and then I was with Graham just talkin…”
Jul 28, 2025
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
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…”
Jul 28, 2025
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Mohan: Windsurf's real value is large codebase work, not 0-to-1 apps
“We had the technology to go out and build these zero to one apps very quickly, and I think people are using Windsurf to actually do that, and it's like extremely impressive, but the real value, I think, is actually much deeper than that. It's actually that you…”
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Mohan: Windsurf Cascade splits planning to Claude and codebase application internally
“The high level planning that is going on in the model is actually getting done with products like the cloud, but the extremely fast retrieval, as well as the ability to like take the high level plan and actually apply it to the code base is proprietary systems…”
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Jul 28, 2025 negative
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…”
Jul 28, 2025 bearish
Hou: 99% of AI editor rules file contents will be automatically inferred
“We strongly believe that having a rules file, you know, we do allow users to add a rules file, we strongly believe that a rules file is a crutch. You know, by the end of twenty-twenty-five, 99% of the things that you're gonna put in a rules file will be interp…”
Jul 28, 2025 negative
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Scott Wu: No customer or training data was shared in Windsurf transaction
“There was no, no, no information that was given out, for example, in terms of customer data, training data, any things like that. And so, so, you know, all of that is, is, is strictly proprietary and then remains, you know, our exclusive access.”
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Hou: The future of developer tooling will eliminate copy-pasting into AI
“So we very strongly believe in a future of no copy-paste. Right? You should never have a situation where you're in a terminal, or you're in a document, or even on a website, and you're copy-pasting text into an agent. That's just not how the way the world work…”
Jul 28, 2025 neutral
Ramachandran: Codeium's $10/month plan primarily covers compute costs without high margins
“And so we just created a 10 dollar a month pro plan, mostly just to cover the cost. Like we're not really like operating, I think, on a much of a margin there either, but like, okay, like just to cover us there.”
Jul 28, 2025 bullish
Ramachandran: AI flows will succeed AI agents in developer tooling
“Copilots are collaborative, but can only work on small scopes. Agents can do larger tasks, but are not collaborative. Both are very useful, but we realize that this real magic will happen when the AI has the ability to be both collaborative and independently p…”
Jul 28, 2025 positive
Aug 6, 2025 bullish
Swyx: Windsurf will stick around as an active product post-acquisition
“I think Windsurf as a product is going to stick around, and people who really like Windsurf, I mean, I was a Windsurf user for a long time we are going to keep using it because it fills a need, and like, obviously, Cognition bought it for a reason.”
Sep 1, 2025 positive
Dec 12, 2025 positive
Dec 12, 2025 bullish
Jun 21, 2026
Malde: Direct user modifications, not binary feedback, drive effective AI continual learning
“I think when people think about, like, online learning, continual learning, they'll first think of, like, accept, reject, or thumbs up, thumbs down, like some of those, like, kind of binary signals. It turns out that that's actually, like, very noisy. You can …”
Jun 21, 2026