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OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

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776 points rcchen | 2 comments | 11 Jul 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.407s | source
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asdev ◴[11 Jul 25 22:03 UTC] No.44537218[source]▶
I never knew anyone who used Windsurf. These AI acquisitions have been unbelievable(in a bad way). WIX acquired some garbage Lovable.dev clone for 80 million. I think many of us are waiting for this bubble to pop(economy will likely pop too)
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1. sunaookami ◴[11 Jul 25 22:15 UTC] No.44537303[source]▶
It was barely better than Cursor and they got shafted by Anthropic because of the takeover announcement so nobody really used it anymore because let's face it - Claude Sonnet is just the best coding model. Design-wise the chat panel and autocomplete integration was a bit nicer than in Cursor but not by much. Subscription for Windsurf was/is also 5$ cheaper.
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2. break_the_bank ◴[11 Jul 25 22:36 UTC] No.44537474[source]▶
i don't think it was better than or comparable to cursor at all. except for the month prior to the OpenAI Acquisition news where some minor influencers on X were calling it better.

if it was better it would have survived.