Seems like a way to justify stock valuations of OpenAI while picking up some good talent to go after vertical stack as the foundation models become commodified. Smart play.
OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
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Re: OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
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Windsurf goes looking into the codebase and learning context before attacking the problem in my experience. Often Cursor tries it's best to just guess the solution without context and only really resorts to going deeper when you tell it they fails. I find if I tell Windsurf to look at something it will, Cursor I sometimes lay everything out for it and it just doesn't even read it. Ultimately though once you run out o…
I trialled Cursor for a month and then Windsurf. Cursor read entire code files in while Windsurf would read the first 100 lines (or was it 50?), then the next 100, and often stop before it got to the part of the file with the method in which was needed. So I went back to Cursor.
Think how inconsistent this all is becomes one of the most frustrating parts of it.
Re: OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
#603Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I wanna pick your brain a lil. Are you saying agentic AI has helped you replace devs that you would otherwise need for your startup? I need fewer devs to get more work done... but interestingly it has put a premium on experience because a lot of the "human work" is debugging and fixing where the LLM missed the mark. So less headcount, higher skill required.
what would someone with less or no experience do then? to be desirable?
Making things fast with llms.
Re: OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B
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> At the same time, Microsoft will likely replicate Windsurf and Cursor's features within a year. And deliver them with far greater stability and polish. We've seen this before with Office. We'll see it again.
...as done with Teams. Microsoft Build is this month [0] and it will tell where they are going next (other than price cuts). I'm expecting disappointment for now, but also expecting GitHub Copilot to be upgraded. Then we'll see if they are ahead or so far behind. [0] https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/home
Well well well: [0]
[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/05/19/openSourceAIE...