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Varun Mohan

04/20/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

We focus on supporting IDEs like JetBrains because they are highly extensible, unlike VS Code, which is less flexible.

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Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf

@ Lenny's Podcast

Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf

04/20/25

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Lex Fridman Cast

03/23/25

@ Lex Fridman

Switching to VS Code was a decision based on the expectation of accelerated feature development compared to NeoVim or Emacs.

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Varun Mohan

05/02/25

@ Y Combinator

We decided to expand Windsurf to support multiple IDEs because companies have developers writing in many languages, and we didn't want to turn away potential customers.

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Satya Nadella

05/20/25

@ Microsoft

We're open sourcing GitHub Copilot in VS Code, integrating AI-powered capabilities directly into the core of VS Code.

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Satya Nadella

05/20/25

@ Microsoft

We're rolling out new updates at Build, starting with Visual Studio, which is the most powerful IDE for .NET and C++.

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Varun Mohan

05/02/25

@ Y Combinator

Our product is being used for real production large codebases, not just toy apps, and many users have never opened the code editor.

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Varun Mohan

05/02/25

@ Y Combinator

We believe that the software will get easier to build over time, and we invested in capabilities to deeply understand the codebase and the intent of developers.

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Y Combinator Cast

11/01/24

@ Y Combinator

Founders are leveraging advanced coding assistants, indicating a shift in how software development is approached, with tools like Cursor gaining popularity over GitHub Copilot.

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Varun Mohan

04/20/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

We provided our product entirely for free across all IDEs, which allowed us to optimize workloads significantly and attract a large user base.

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John Ousterhout

04/09/25

@ The Pragmatic Engineer

AI tools will make it easier to generate low-level code, improving autocomplete capabilities and potentially producing high-quality code.