Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE - with Varun and Anshul of Codeium AI

Listen to this episode from Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast on Spotify. 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 Get full access to Latent.Space at www.latent.space/subscribe