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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Windsurf comes up
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 0:14 unnamed speaker Yeah, um, I don't think I, like, we, like, quite overlapped when, when you were at Windsurf, but obviously I was close to the Windsurf team, Varun and the other guys, and it's really surprising to see that, you know, you have sort of gone… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:27 unnamed speaker I think Codium and then Windsurf had a bit of a mix of like product engineering and model training. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:05 Ronak Malde I remember back when we were at Windsurf, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:06 Ronak Malde I, I felt like when we were at Windsurf again, like, doing, uh, just, like, seeing how developers were using coding agents and, like,
Devin’s 80% Moment: Background Agents, 7x PRs, & End of Hand-Held Coding — Walden Yan & Cole Murray
- ▶ 1:00:02 unnamed speaker Okay, one more last thing before we go, uh, Windsor two point 2 times in the scene
Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio (acquired for $5B by Capital One!)
- ▶ 29:28 James Reggio That provider, uh, as a, as a dev, you can pick, um, you know, between like cursor, windsurf, cloud code credits, like, and, and you can basically craft your, your stack to your preference and easily switch between them.
[State of Code Evals] After SWE-bench, Code Clash & SOTA Coding Benchmarks recap — John Yang
[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor
- ▶ 33:31 unnamed speaker Maybe a bit of windsurf because it was left over from the previous thing.
[State of AI Startups] Memory/Learning, RL Envs & DBT-Fivetran — Sarah Catanzaro, Amplify
- ▶ 19:39 Sarah Catanzaro So, you know, if you're developing an app like Cursor, how do you ensure that your users don't, you know, switch over to, uh, uh, you know, windsurf?
⚡️GPT5-Codex-Max: Training Agents with Personality, Tools & Trust — Brian Fioca + Bill Chen, OpenAI
- ▶ 22:29 unnamed speaker I mean, Devin and Cascade, you know, and, uh, I, uh, so I have a personal side project where I want to make Devin for non-coding.
AI to AE's: Grit, Glean, and Kleiner Perkins' next Enterprise AI hit — Joubin Mirzadegan, Roadrunner
- ▶ 23:26 Shawn Wang You know, I just wanted to also touch on the other conversation that you had with Varun from Windsurf, which I also, I really enjoyed. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:57 Shawn Wang I think this is something that people don't appreciate about Windsurf is that they look at the product and they understand, they understand it's a, you know, it's a gigantic IDE, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:01 Joubin Mirzadegan Like, it's not this medic-type playbook in the very beginning, and then when you get to, like, where Windsurf was 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:41 Joubin Mirzadegan Or cognition or windsurf, like magic.
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 21:31 unnamed speaker Well, in, uh, Windsurf, we actually had this like, uh, thing where you can click on any symbol and it generates a deep wiki for you. 2 times in the scene
⚡️ The State of AI Engineer Hiring: Cheating, AI Adoption,Junior Devs — Vivek Ravisankar, HackerRank
- ▶ 14:06 Vivek Ravisankar So we took a lot of inspiration from the Cursors of the world or the Windsor of the world, whatever it is, like, in terms of, like, IDE, Copilot next to it, building code repositories and making this as real as possible.
- ▶ 15:15 unnamed speaker No, like not only do I work at Cognition and Winsurf, and then I also, you know, am like organizing this AIE code thing, which, uh, you know, you're definitely invited to, but like, it's like, yeah, everyone's launching a terminal and… 2 times in the scene
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 3:38 Quinn Slack First, it started with Copilot, and then, Cody, we were really good at Chatrag, and then Cursor and Windsurf showed that kind of IDE forks and partially agentic things could get better and better, and then, you know, the next generation,…
Context Engineering for Agents - Lance Martin, LangChain
- ▶ 16:14 Lance Martin Varun from Windsurf shared an interesting perspective on how they approach retrieval in the context of Windsurf. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:41 Lance Martin So in that sense, I kind of view it just simply as, um, you know, in the case of sophisticated memory retrieval, it is just like a, a, you know, complex rag system in the same way we talked about with like Varun and building windsurf.
- ▶ 53:42 unnamed speaker Cursor and windsurf are being, are better than VS code for like AI native thing, just because they didn't have to deal with removing things and why cognition is like, you know, 2 times in the scene
⚡️Launching Ona: Coding Agent with Fully Sandboxed Cloud Environment
- ▶ 3:13 Johannes (Johannes Landgraf) And together with that, we also created OpenVSX, which I think now powers all of the extensions that you see running in Cursor and also Windsurf, which is also open source under the Eclipse Foundation marketplace for VS Code.
Long Live Context Engineering - with Jeff Huber of Chroma
- ▶ 55:47 Shawn Wang Your cursor shop, cloud code, windsurf.
The AI Agenda: GPT5 leaks and the business of AI News — Steph Palazzolo, The Information
- ▶ 43:23 Shawn Wang What was your sort of summary of like the whole Windsurf situation? 7 times in the scene
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 0:04 Shawn Wang As many of you know, rumors of OpenAI acquiring Windsurf for three billion dollars have been going on for roughly March to May of this year. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:03 Varun Mohan Hey, my name is Varun from Kodium, and today we're launching the Windsurf Editor. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:35:22 Kevin Hou The Windsurf editor was built around our AI engine to assist you however you write code, whether it's Cascade or in the text editor. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:36:55 Varun Mohan You can experience the magic today at windsurf.ai. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:38:38 Shawn Wang Um, and obviously that played a little bit into your launch with windsurf as well.
- ▶ 1:39:16 Varun Mohan You know, within a year of deploying an enterprise product, and then large companies like Dell and stuff use the product, so I think we've seen a lot of traction on the enterprise space, but I think one of the most exciting things we've… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:49:50 Varun Mohan 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.
- ▶ 1:53:26 Shawn Wang We have some listener questions, actually, about the Windsurf launch, and obviously, I also want to give you the chance to just respond to Hacker News.
- ▶ 2:01:46 Shawn Wang I should also mention that, you know, I was part of the preview and thanks for letting me in and I've been maining Windsurf for a long time.
- ▶ 2:07:18 Shawn Wang So why 10 dollars a month for Windsurf? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:11:53 Shawn Wang What's next for Cascade or Windsurf?
- ▶ 2:16:20 Anshul Ramachandran I think it would be a little bit like, you know, very kind of egotistical us to be like, oh, we have Windsurf now, all of our Enterprise customers are going to switch to Windsurf, and this is the only, like, no, we still support the other… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:20:13 Anshul Ramachandran Like, the stuff that's coming out for the third model providers, like, Cascade and Windsurf would not have been possible if it wasn't for the rapid improvements with . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .…
- ▶ 2:25:36 Shawn Wang Did you have this with the extension, or is this pure windsurf? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:26:31 Anshul Ramachandran But yeah, now like, look at some of the UX that we're able to build in like, in Windsurf, and it's just like, it's fun.
- ▶ 2:43:34 Kevin Hou This is our first ever Windsurf presentation, so you could say it's the first time we're kind of spilling the beans, ah, what the IDE is all about. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:54:18 Kevin Hou WindSurf has to be ubiquitous, and the agent will be reading more and more of your mind, doing things that you might not even know it's doing.
- ▶ 2:54:47 Kevin Hou So, even if Windsurf understands what you're doing in the moment, there is still an inferred understanding of your code base and your preferences and your organizational guidelines that, let's just say, senior engineers at your company… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:58:19 Kevin Hou Now that Windsurf understands what you're doing in the moment, right, the first principle, and can improve over time, the second principle, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:19:10 Kevin Hou I lead product at Windsurf, and I'm super excited to be back here. 16 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:27:20 Kevin Hou It's only inevitable that Winsurf will be on all the time, working for you even when you don't know it. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:34:37 Shawn Wang Uh, this is a very special episode because we have the, I guess, until recently, uh, the C, the separate CEOs of Cognition and Windsurf, Scott Wu and Jeff Wang. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42:35 Alessio Fanelli and he said, I see the windsurf marketing team in this. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:50:36 Shawn Wang Uh, they have a, they have a non-exclusive license to Windsor's IDE and IP. 6 times in the scene
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 11:01 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan You can use Klein in Kerser, or in Windsurf, or in VS Code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:11:23 Saoud (Saud) Rizwan I feel like Klein kind of stands out in the space for having, for being a little bit more humanized than something like, you know, a cursor agent or a copilot-pilot or a cascade.
Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
- ▶ 52:11 Shawn Wang Do you use Cursor, Windsurf, um, other autonomous agents?
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 21:44 Zach Lloyd It's probably better than Windsurf since they aren't, they don't have Sonnet for.
- ▶ 28:58 Shawn Wang Inside of Windsurf, I use Super Whisper instead of Whisper Flow, but same thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:07 Zach Lloyd Now, we're not nearly at the scale, just to be clear, of, like, Curse or even Windsurf, but, like, we have pretty
Scaling Test Time Compute to Multi-Agent Civilizations — Noam Brown, OpenAI
- ▶ 33:35 Spooks (Swyx) Cursor, Windsurf. 5 times in the scene
⚡️Launching AI Diplomacy: the hardest LLM Game Benchmark yet - Alex Duffy
- ▶ 18:59 Alex Duffy The things that helped for me is I just made like a lot of, I know this isn't what llms.txt was made for, but I just kind of like made a text file for like each of the folders that kind of had context of the files in that folder so that…
ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual
- ▶ 23:09 unnamed speaker There's also cursor rules, widsurf rules.
Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
- ▶ 6:57 Boris Cherny Yeah, I guess it coming back to code, this kind of approach affected the way that we built code also, because we know that if we want some product that has like very broad a product market fit today, we would build, you know, a cursor or a…
Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra
The Rise and Fall of the Vector DB category: Jo Kristian Bergum (ex-Chief Scientist, Vespa)
- ▶ 5:36 Jo Kristian Bergum And I think one of the insight I have from, I use windsurf a lot. 2 times in the scene
GPT 4.1: The New OpenAI Workhorse
- ▶ 32:58 unnamed speaker And, uh, I think the Windsor partnership today, they're giving four one for free, 4.1 for free for a couple of weeks.
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 7:16 unnamed speaker Um, uh, I, I, I confess, you know, I'm a cursor, a windsurf user. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:33 unnamed speaker Building richer, richer systems with MCP is that you can easily envision an MCP server that serves something to like something like cursor or windsurf or a cloud desktop, but at the same time also is an MCP client at the same time and…
Building Manus AI (first ever Manus Meetup)
- ▶ 38:44 unnamed speaker So the first decision we made is that we are, we are not making another coding agent, like Cursor, like Windsor, yeah, like, like, you know, we're not doing that.
OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point)
- ▶ 6:06 Dan McAteer So what I'm, what I'm mostly doing when I'm using it is I'm using the, the connection feature in the ChatGPT app to connect it to a cursor or to Windsor for the VS code.
- ▶ 28:49 Dan McAteer 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 directory and I'll just say, Hey, windsurf, 2 times in the scene
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 1:23 unnamed speaker Um, and obviously that played a little bit into your launch with Windsurf as well. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:41 Varun Mohan 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.
- ▶ 16:16 unnamed speaker We have some listener questions, actually, about the Windsurf launch, and obviously, I also want to give you the chance to just respond to Hacker News.
- ▶ 24:44 unnamed speaker Thanks for letting me in and I've been meaning Windsurf for a long time.
- ▶ 30:17 unnamed speaker Uh, so why 10 dollars a month for Windsurf? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 34:55 unnamed speaker What's next for Cascade or, or Windsurf? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:27 Anshul Ramachandran It would be a little bit like, you know, very kind of egotistical us to be like, oh, we have Windsurf now, all of our enterprise customers are going to switch to Windsurf, and this is the only, like, no, we still support the other ID. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:49 unnamed speaker The windsurf just gives you more of the ID.
- ▶ 49:39 Anshul Ramachandran But yeah, now like, look at some of the UX that we're able to build in like, in Windsurf, and it's just like, it's fun.