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

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737 points rcchen | 3 comments | 11 Jul 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 2.091s | 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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cellis ◴[11 Jul 25 22:24 UTC] No.44537377[source]▶
Base44 is absolutely not garbage. I’ve tried it and can say it’s as good or better of a vibe-builder than Lovable or Bolt. Have you benchmarked it against the competition or can you otherwise substantiate the “garbage” claim? FWIW I do know one amazing engineer using Windsurf
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1. asdev ◴[11 Jul 25 22:55 UTC] No.44537611[source]▶
all those projects are garbage and just create half bake prototypes that never see the light of day
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2. cellis ◴[12 Jul 25 01:15 UTC] No.44538450[source]▶
Agree in principle, but when evaluated against the competition and likely acquisition targets of Wix, it's certainly not garbage. I've seen it vibe code an entire app that was -- admittedly mostly working -- and deploy it with a prompt of 5 words, in about 2 minutes.
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