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Mohan: Windsurf was the first agentic IDE product on the market
“We were the first identic IDE product out there, right? That's what we landed with.”
Mohan: In-house code edit models outperform Anthropic on speed and context
“We have custom models that we built that are post trained on top of popular open source models that can make these edits really, really quickly to the code base. And the reason why you would want to do that is it's a faster and be also that model can actually …”
Mohan: Windsurf sees 30% to 40% developer productivity improvements
“So I think, look, we're definitely seeing over 30, maybe close to 40% productivity improvements.”
Mohan: AI will probably write over 90% of software
“AI was probably going to write well over 90% of the software, in which case the role of a developer and what they're doing in the ID is maybe reviewing code.”
Mohan: Windsurf aims to cannibalize its product every 6–12 months
“One of the goals that I tell everyone at our company is we should be cannibalizing the existing state of our product every six to 12 months. Every six to 12 months, it should make our existing product look silly. It should almost make the form factor of existi…”
Mohan: Codeium's GTM team saved $500K by building internal apps with AI
“We saved over half a million dollars of SaaS products we were going to buy because our go-to-market team has now built apps instead of buying them.”
Mohan: Windsurf's UI tripled code acceptance rate over VS Code
“And what we realized is immediately by porting over to windsurf, our acceptance rate tripled same ML models. It just tripled.”
Varun Mohan: Windsurf's goal is to reduce app building time by 99%
“Our goal is to reduce the time it takes to build apps and technology by 99%”
Mohan: Computer science degrees remain valuable because CS is problem solving
“I don't know if I would say that you shouldn't go get a computer science degree. I think computer science is almost synonymous with problem solving. In that case, I think it's Pretty valuable.”
Mohan: Windsurf only hires for a role when the team is underwater
“We only hire for a role if we're actually underwater for that function.”
Placek: Compound brand names act as associative multipliers for companies
“We know from the research we've invested in that compounds Like PowerBook or Facebook are multipliers of associations because there's wind and there's circles around that, you know, and then there's surf images around that. So one plus one equals three, right?”
Mohan: Windsurf reached 1M developer trials in four months
“We launched the product like a bit over four months ago. And in that period of time, over a million developers have tried the product. And obviously we have many hundreds of thousands of monthly active users right now.”
Mohan: Windsurf collects tens of millions of user feedback signals hourly
“It's that actually every hour we get probably tens of millions of pieces of feedback from our users. We get a lot of feedback on what they like and what they don't like.”
Mohan: VS Code limitations forced Codeium to fork it and build Windsurf
“So VS Code, which is a very popular IDE, had a ceiling for the AI capabilities we could showcase our users. And because of that, we decided to go out and fork VS Code and build our own IDE with some of these new agentic capabilities”
Mohan: Windsurf's 2025 engineering output will exceed all prior years combined
“This year, the total amount of engineering output we will have is much larger than the engineering output we've had since the beginning of the company's creation till now.”
Mohan: Engineering will shift toward business problem prioritization over syntax
“So I think what engineering kind of goes to is actually what you wanted engineers to do in the first place, which is what are the most important business problems that we do need to solve? What are the most important capabilities that we need our application o…”
Mohan: Windsurf's retrieval and autocomplete models are built entirely in-house
“Interestingly, the one that does retrieval is actually completely pre-trained in house. That actually does that. But yeah, for a lot of different pieces, it's based on open source for interestingly, for the one that does that does the edits and autocomplete th…”
Mohan: Local IDEs and local development probably won't disappear within years
“The IDE and building locally has been a thing that people have done for, you know, decades, so probably it's not going to go away in the next, like, couple years.”
Mohan: Dell operates single codebases exceeding 100 million lines of code
“Companies like Dell have singular code bases that are over a hundred million lines of code, right?”
Mohan: JPMorgan Chase, with over 50,000 developers, uses Windsurf
“Probably, like, publicly, I'd say, let's just say JPMorgan Chase. They have over 50,000 developers.”
Weil: OpenAI's Chief People Officer vibe-coded an internal company tool
“Our, actually, our chief people officer, Julia, Was telling me the other day, she vibe coded an internal tool that she had at a previous job that she really wanted to have here at open AI. And she opened, I don't know, windsurf or something and vibe coded it.”