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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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Windsurf CEO: Betting On AI Agents, Pivoting In 48 Hours, And The Future of Coding

@ Y Combinator

Windsurf CEO: Betting On AI Agents, Pivoting In 48 Hours, And The Future of Coding

05/02/25

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Michael Truell

05/01/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

Our early development involved building a custom code editor from scratch, which we quickly transitioned to using in our daily work.

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Varun Mohan

04/20/25

@ Lenny's Podcast

We've invested heavily in understanding large codebases, which is crucial for making significant changes quickly.

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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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Michael Truell

06/11/25

@ Y Combinator

Building a tool like GitHub Copilot required significant changes to the editor, which was organizationally challenging.

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Michael Truell

06/11/25

@ Y Combinator

We're seeing early signs of change in coding, especially in smaller codebases where teams are starting to use AI to code at a higher level of abstraction.

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Satya Nadella

05/20/25

@ Microsoft

Visual Studio now has over 50 million users, and GitHub has 150 million users, with GitHub Copilot being used by more than 15 million developers.

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Michael Seibel

09/05/24

@ Y Combinator

Developers are experiencing a different reality with AI tools like GitHub Copilot, which significantly boosts their productivity.

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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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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.