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Coogan: METR Study Found AI Coding Tools Made Developers 19% Slower
“The meter team did these evaluations where they ran a randomized control trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up open source developers, and what they found was that developers said that they expected products like cursor and windsurf to improve them by…”
John Coogan Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 40:30 Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
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Hays: All Windsurf Employees Receive Accelerated Vesting in Cognition Acquisition
“This transaction is structured that 100% of Windsurf employees will participate financially. They will also have all their vesting cliffs waived. And we'll receive fully accelerated vesting for their work today.”
Jordi Hays Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 29:53 Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
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Hays: Windsurf Reached ~$40M Run Rate in One Year
“This year, Anthropic, you know, Windsurf went from zero to somewhere around a forty million dollar run rate.”
Jordi Hays Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 39:56 Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
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Jeff Wang Confirms Cognition Is Acquiring Windsurf
“I mean, this is a real acquisition. We are being acquired by cognition.”
Jeff Wang Jul 19, 2025 ▶ 1:21:06 Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
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Hays: Google spent billions to acquire Windsurf's intellectual property
“They, of course Google did buy, you know, spend however many billions on, on acquiring the Windsurf IP, so not super surprising.”
Jordi Hays Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 7:41 Cloudflare Outage, iMessages in Gemini 3, 𝕏 Reactions to Gemini 3 | Diet TBPN
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