WindSurf
1 creator use or recommend it
An AI coding tool that was compared to Cursor as providing advanced autocomplete functionality.
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How WindSurf compares
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AI-powered code editor
Both are first-generation AI coding tools. Windsurf built a following through the YC community; both faced big tech acquisitions that cut off their AI access.
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Both are first-generation AI coding tools. Windsurf built a following through the YC community; both faced big tech acquisitions that cut off their AI access.
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"Anthropic cut off Windsurf access after Google DeepMind hired Windsurf, probably in order to gain access to the reasoning traces."
Historical parallel to the Cursor situation — both involved an AI lab cutting off a coding IDE after a big tech company acquired it
"Remember the whole Windsurf thing? Windsurf actually did this very smart thing where they went to YC and there was a lot of YC users using it. So you kind of had this whole movement on Windsurf."
Competitor to Cursor; gained traction via YC community
"you had kind of the first generation windsurf and cursor that were well established by this point"
Grouped with Cursor as first generation tools
AI software developer tool
Scott uses both WindSurf and Devin internally at his company.
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Scott uses both WindSurf and Devin internally at his company.
"We obviously use a ton of Devon internally, we use you know windsurf and the agents inside windsurf internally as well"
Used alongside Devon internally
What creators say
"We use Windsurf and the agents inside Windsurf internally as well. But at this point, either way, whatever tools you're using, it's not really you typing out the lines of code yourself."
More from Scott Wu →+1 more mention from Scott
"We obviously use a ton of Devon internally, we use you know windsurf and the agents inside windsurf internally as well"
"Anthropic cut off Windsurf access after Google DeepMind hired Windsurf, probably in order to gain access to the reasoning traces."
More from Peter Diamandis →
"Remember the whole Windsurf thing? Windsurf actually did this very smart thing where they went to YC and there was a lot of YC users using it. So you kind of had this whole movement on Windsurf."
More from a16z →"We learned it trial by fire, acquiring Windsurf in the course of a weekend as a company that was four times our size — from first call to executed reading from Friday night to Monday morning."
More from Nikhil Reddy →
"When we started this podcast 60 weeks ago, it was toxic to be running Cognition and telling folks they had to run seven days a week and laying off half of Windsurf when you acquired them because they weren't willing to work hard enough."
More from Jason Lemkin →+2 more mentions from Jason
"when they acquired Windsurf he said we're letting a lot of the folks go"
"the early days were clicking tab to finish a line of code which was what Kodium and Windsurf got going with"
"If you are comfortable in Codex or Claude or WinSurf or Cursor, you pull up your codebase, you fire up the MCP server"
More from Matt Colyer →"you had kind of the first generation windsurf and cursor that were well established by this point"
More from Pete Koomen →"at KP we invested early in companies like Windsurf and Harvey and we saw what happened when you can point these models at structured and unstructured text"
More from Juben →
"We changed Codeium to Windsurf. Now, nobody knew about Codeium really. No one knew how to spell it. They couldn't search it. Their SEO was bad. We worked with them over a six-week period. Changed it to Windsurf."
More from My First Million →
"if you think back a year ago, we were talking about Cursor versus WindSurf and like that product experience was essentially like advanced autocomplete"
More from Y Combinator →+1 more mention from Y
"It was like the IDEs, Cursor, Windsurf taking off."
"You would think that having spent billions of dollars buying Windsurf that they could have a competent codegen product."
"They also bought Windsurf — well, they bought the team of Windsurf — which is also students from MIT that were on the frontier, building essentially a coding tool. And then they got vaporized by the machine."
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"We launched Windsurf 2.0 which brought Devon to Windsurf and we have now an agent command center"
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