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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Windsurf comes up
Why AI is disrupting traditional product management | Tomer Cohen (LinkedIn CPO)
- ▶ 18:56 Tomer Cohen You have to build, we are building that layer that basically allows it to do so, whether it's co-pilot or cursor, windsurf, and so on.
How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI | Howie Liu (co-founder and CEO)
How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- ▶ 48:17 Lenny Rachitsky I forget who it was, Windsurf, or one of those guys just uses their own model now.
Inside the expert network training every frontier AI model | Garrett Lord
- ▶ 3:38 Lenny Rachitsky It's available in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 2:53 Lenny Rachitsky It's available in VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 36:42 Lenny Rachitsky He, his whole thing is when he's coming up with a name for like Sonos or Vercel or Windsurf, it's different.
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
- ▶ 1:07 Lenny Rachitsky David is the founder of Lexicon Branding, which pioneered the field of brand naming, and invented a few names that you may have heard of, including PowerBook, Pentium, BlackBerry, Swiffer, the Impossible Burger, also Vercel, and Windsurf,… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:21 Lenny Rachitsky Let's use windsurf as an example, which is an amazing name, killing it, uh, that you guys helped come up with. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:06 David Placek WindSurf happened to be available, and, uh, they, they saw it, uh, right away. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:21 David Placek Um, you know, going back to windsurf, if, as we showed them pictures of people windsurfing and waves and things, if they said, ah, you know, that just doesn't work for us at all.
- ▶ 1:10:48 Lenny Rachitsky I also love this tip of asking people if our, hey, our competitor just launched, they're called windsurf.
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 29:52 Lenny Rachitsky When you talk about this, I think about this, the seal windsurf was on the podcast and he talked a lot about how they've always really unique data about which recommendations of code, uh, snippets people accept and reject. 4 times in the scene
AI prompt engineering in 2025: What works and what doesn’t | Sander Schulhoff
- ▶ 1:08:09 Sander Schulhoff There's, there's Cursor, there's, I guess, Windsurf, Devon, Copilot.
Mercado Libre: 18k engineers, 30k deploys a day, & their own fleet of planes | Sebastian Barrios
- ▶ 15:52 Sebastian Barrios I think it's just accelerating everything we do on, on the actual coding side, of course, it started as like advanced autocomplete, and now you have agentic frameworks and cursor and windsurf.
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 47:30 Lenny Rachitsky and I noticed looking back at that conversation, he mentioned wind surf a lot. 3 times in the scene
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 50:25 Lenny Rachitsky People can just, you know, open up cursor, windsurf, and just start adding features.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- ▶ 53:20 Lenny Rachitsky Anthropics got something there, you know, cursor and windsurf have their own little agents and replit.
Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
- ▶ 0:49 Lenny Rachitsky Varun is the co-founder and CEO of Windsurf, which has quickly become one of people's favorite AI coding tools and is basically the main competitor to Cursor, with over one million users four months in. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:08 Lenny Rachitsky I feel like just you guys have become this overnight success, which is definitely not an overnight success, but I feel like I've been hearing about Windsurf more and more as people's favorite AI tool. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:50 Varun Mohan I think a lot of people at the company have had their ideas tested over and over again, even just building Windsor.
- ▶ 12:59 Lenny Rachitsky So let's talk about windsurf. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:51 Varun Mohan Now we've actually launched this offering called windsurf tab that basically shows you refactors as well.
- ▶ 16:36 Lenny Rachitsky What is the current state of traction for Windsor? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 33:19 Lenny Rachitsky Here's a question that I've been hearing more and more is just how do you do interviews these days with tools like Windsurf out there that solve all your problems?
- ▶ 38:53 Lenny Rachitsky So that versus just loading say windsurf on your 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:23 Lenny Rachitsky Let's do a live demo of windsurf so folks can see what it's like. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 47:19 Varun Mohan And the cool part about this is windsurf not only kind of knows about what the agent has done. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:15 Lenny Rachitsky Okay, so, so I don't think people realize this about apps like Windsurf, but it could actually do a lot of agentic work for you, where you just tell it here. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:20 Lenny Rachitsky You talked about how with windsurf, it's not necessary.
- ▶ 1:06:48 Lenny Rachitsky Thing you've learned about building AI products, building windsurf in this, just being in a space.
- ▶ 1:11:25 Lenny Rachitsky And when you say get your hands dirty, basically it's like download with surf, start coding, ask it to build things for you. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 55:22 Kevin Weil And she opened, I don't know, windsurf or something and vibe coded it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:03 Lenny Rachitsky Which is when you look at cursor and windsurf on something I learned from those founders is that they, they use like a sonnet, but then they also have a bunch of custom models that help along the edges that make the specific experience.
- ▶ 1:23:59 Kevin Weil Well, I think, I think like vibe coding with, with products like windsurf is just super fun. 2 times in the scene