Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE

Our second podcast guest ever in March 2023 was Varun Mohan, CEO of Codeium; at the time, they had around 10,000 users and how they vowed to keep their autocomplete free forever: Today, over a million developers use their products, they still have their free tier, and they recently launched Windsurf, an AI IDE.

00:00:00: Introductions & Catchup
00:03:52: Why they created Windsurf
00:05:52: Limitations of VS Code
00:10:12: Evaluation methods for Cascade and Windsurf
00:16:15: Listener questions about Windsurf launch
00:20:30: Remote execution and security concerns
00:25:18: Evolution of Codeium's strategy
00:28:29: Cascade and its capabilities
00:33:12: Multi-agent systems
00:37:02: Areas of improvement for Windsurf
00:39:12: Building an enterprise-first company
00:42:01: Copilot for X, AI UX, and Enterprise AI blog posts