Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software development—from optimizing LLM latency to enabling non-engineers to ship code.
It really amazes me that people are forking probably the best IDE, adding AI on top of it to build another IDE, and boom, you're now worth $3 billions. Highly inspirational.
What I really loved about this was finding out that they are a 4 year old company with a very different first product. Overnight successes are built over years.
Quite the timing!
It really amazes me that people are forking probably the best IDE, adding AI on top of it to build another IDE, and boom, you're now worth $3 billions. Highly inspirational.
What I really loved about this was finding out that they are a 4 year old company with a very different first product. Overnight successes are built over years.
You can fork IntelliJ though, that’s what Android Studio did. The community edition is open source and has permissive license for it.