From swyx: I’m glad to welcome back Anshul as our first ever “returning returning” guest author! His first and second posts on AI product thinking were hits on Latent Space and Codeium has > 10x’ed its install base and raised a $65m Series B since our last catch up. Today, they are launching Windsurf, their own Agentic IDE - at first glance “just” a VS Code fork like many before them. I can vouch that today’s piece was written without promoting Windsurf in mind, but as an outside observer it is remarkable how the principles here align — move more deliberately and build for AI in the Enterprise on Day 1. Yet many other “Enterprise AI” companies also feel soulless and vague, bc it is incredibly hard to thread the needle of staying interesting but safe.
In a world of many similar-looking AI products (they literally started by building another Copilot), Codeium is literally “built different”, and we are incredibly lucky to have them explain how they are building -as they build-.