Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE - with Varun and Anshul of Codeium AI
Description
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.
Chapters
* 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
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