From Jeff Wang, Prev. Windsurf CEO now President, New Enterprise at Cognition/Devin (who just raised $1B):
Today we are saying goodbye to Windsurf
and we are transforming it to Devin Desktop
Windsurf has been an absolutely amazing experience for me and the team. Though it has been rocky at times, we have seen every phase of AI coding and we want to keep embracing where things are going. That means we need to once again reorient ourselves towards a more focused goal and remove the Windsurf branding.
Believe it or not, the Windsurf brand has been around less than a year and a half, and before that, the previous name Codeium was only around a similar timeframe as well. I ve actually had to change my email every year all the way to the eventual acquisition to Cognition. In AI, most products only have a 1 year lifespan before you need to drastically change it to the next.
Devin now encompasses all our form factors, whether it s the cloud agent, the agent command center (with IDE), CLI, review, or our other products. This way we can really focus our efforts around one name. We are doubling down on our neutrality and making Devin Desktop compatible with other agents via ACP. We may be the only Switzerland of AI left and we embrace this role.
As for me, I ll be transitioning from CEO of Windsurf to Cognition s President of New Enterprise, helping open new regions and verticals, accelerating velocity, and filling in gaps as usual.
The story of Windsurf doesn t end here, it continues on as part of Devin s journey.
I still rock Windsurf and love it, despite all the handwringing about pricing.
Love the intention behind @Windsurf Codemaps, which are "AI-annotated structured maps of your code, powered by SWE-1.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.5." to enable "hyper-contextualized codebase understanding, grounded in precise code navigation".
Or put another way: a map to help find your way in a thicket of vibed spaghetti code.
Windsurf 2.0 turns your IDE into a command center for managing dozens of AI agents at once. New: the Agent Command Center gives you a Kanban view of every agent running across local and cloud environments. Spaces group agent sessions, PRs, and files by project so context carries over. Plus, Devin — an autonomous cloud agent with its own VM — is now built in. Delegate tasks with one click, keep coding locally (or close your laptop), and review PRs when they're ready. Included with every plan.
There's a lot of options for models these days. I've been using Claude 3.7 but I'm curious what's been working well for others. What model are you using and why?
Is the thinking version of @Claude by Anthropic worth the extra credit spend? Does @DeepSeek work well enough to save some credits? Is it worth trying any of the @ChatGPT by OpenAI models?
Windsurf is an IDE that enables anyone to collaborate in lockstep with AI. Built by the Codeium team, the Windsurf Editor combines the best of copilot and agent systems to help you ship products faster, leveraging better context to provide better suggestions.
As Cascade has gotten better, we noticed that the tasks users are giving it have gotten more complex. Instead of just asking Cascade to make simple edits, users are relying on Cascade to build out entire features, perform large refactors, and implement PRs end to end. More complex tasks mean longer prompts with more information which can often be laborious to type out. In this wave, we re bringing voice support to Cascade. This means that users can just speak to Cascade rather than having to type things out (though it doesn t talk back yet)
The modern coding superpower. State-of-the-art suggestions on 30+ languages in your IDE: VSCode, JetBrains, Vim/Neovim, Emacs, and uniquely as a Chrome extension, enabling it on notebooks (Jupyter, Colab, etc), websites like JSFiddle, and web IDEs like Gitpod.
