Windsurf

Those job offers flying left and right in the heat of the AI talent wars? They sometimes have a lit fuse attached.Prem Qu Nair, an early software engineer at Windsurf, said Google gave him an exploding job offer to join its DeepMind lab during its recent hiring blitz at the…

What’s left of the AI coding startup Windsurf will be acquired by its competitor Cognition, the two companies just announced.Google announced on Friday that it had hired Windsurf’s CEO and other key executives and licensed its technology, leaving Windsurf’s future as an independent company in doubt. This also meant a…

Windsurf’s head of product engineering believes proficiency in three key areas makes a successful software engineer — coding, research, and “metalearning.”Technical fundamentals are first and foremost, Windsurf’s Kevin Hou said in a presentation at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco.”If we zoom out and think about what makes…