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Will tools like Windsurf result in fewer software engineers? "It feels like it's people hating software engineers who say this" says Windsurf cofounder and CEO Varun Mohan In today's podcast episode, we go into the engineering challenges (and tradeoffs!) of building an AI-powered IDE like Windsurf and how Windsurf...

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Michael Callaghanvor 1 Jahr

@windsurf_ai @_mohansolo I recently needed a specialized web front end to allow my QA team to edit a single file in GitHub, without giving them access to the entire repo. Windsurf built this app for me in less than 30 minutes. I deployed it to GitHub and now they're using it.

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Boardy Boardmanvor 1 Jahr

@windsurf_ai @_mohansolo Tools like Windsurf don't replace engineers - they just raise the bar on what's worth building.

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Ravavyrvor 1 Jahr

@windsurf_ai @_mohansolo "people hating software engineers"... lost me there. why can't they just say "People who are ignorant of AI use cases" ? or is it because the speaker doesn't know better?

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Gergely Oroszvor 1 Jahr

@windsurf_ai @_mohansolo I know it's a lot to ask to finish listening to the second part of the thought of this 37 second clip where he explains his reasoning Oh well - you do you (The speaker is building AI tools used by many devs and non-devs for building software btw: Windsurf!)

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kohlvor 1 Jahr

top 1-10% will for a bit (those who can add new training data to train models) until none left meanwhile the 99-90% will compete in a saturated commoditized market. Maybe not worth it, people drop out. AI continues to get better at a rapid clip. entrepreneurship will be forced path, I think.

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uratmangun.ovhvor 1 Jahr

@windsurf_ai @_mohansolo unlimited slow request please windsurf

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Spartakvor 1 Jahr

@windsurf_ai @_mohansolo Listened to only half. This had very good potential and you asked good questions but the guy refused to give any valuable insights on anything. Meh

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Nagvor 1 Jahr

@windsurf_ai @_mohansolo Engineers are and will be essential.

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Michael Wallvor 1 Jahr

@_mohansolo @windsurf_ai This was an inspiring conversation.

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Benvor 1 Jahr

@_mohansolo @windsurf_ai Has there ever been a software team that didn't have a backlog of tasks to do? Currently people are looking at it from the POV that they now can comfortably meet their deadlines. People wil eventually move to the approach that the deadline is a lot sooner.

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Even if AI will write 90% of code. But it won’t replace engineers. Windsurf’s founder explains that even if AI generates most of the code, engineers still spend time reviewing it, debugging issues, designing systems, testing, deploying, and making architectural decisions. Those parts don’t disappear. He brings up Amdahl’s Law to make the point: speeding up one part of the workflow doesn’t dramatically change the total time unless everything else speeds up too. For example, if writing code takes 30 out of 100 total time units, and AI brings it down to 3, the total time still only drops to 73. That’s just a 27% improvement. More productivity doesn’t mean fewer engineers. It just increases the ROI of building tech. And when ROI goes up, companies are more likely to build—and hire more people to do it. Take JPMorgan Chase. They have 50,000+ engineers and a $17B software budget. If each engineer can ship more software, that doesn’t reduce headcount. It raises the cost of not building. Companies like Windsurf and Anthropic are hiring more engineers—not less—despite being at the edge of AI code generation.
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AI can’t yet one-shot an entire product—but with the rise of vibe coding, supercharged developers are getting close. Part intuition and experimentation, part validation, it's the new frontier of software development. YC's Tom Blomfield (Tom Blomfield) has spent the last month building side projects with tools like Claude Code, Windsurf, and Aqua, seeing just how far you can push modern LLMs. From writing full-stack apps to debugging with a single copy paste of an error message, AI is becoming a legit collaborator in the dev process. With tips from YC founders in the Spring batch, this is a playbook for anyone who wants to get the most out of vibe coding and build faster.
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AI can’t yet one-shot an entire product—but with the rise of vibe coding, supercharged developers are getting close. Part intuition and experimentation, part validation, it's the new frontier of software development. YC's Tom Blomfield (Tom Blomfield) has spent the last month building side projects with tools like Claude Code, Windsurf, and Aqua, seeing just how far you can push modern LLMs. From writing full-stack apps to debugging with a single copy paste of an error message, AI is becoming a legit collaborator in the dev process. With tips from YC founders in the Spring batch, this is a playbook for anyone who wants to get the most out of vibe coding and build faster.

Y Combinator

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We asked Walden (Co-Founder of Cognition) about building a truly AI-native company. “At a minimum, we can’t be hiring people whose whole aspiration is to write code that Devin will do in 1–2 years.” "A lot of companies at our stage, they have like an internal tools team to maintain all the different services that engineers internally use." "And we can just staff that team with Devins, and then basically have engineers just sending requests to those Devins for how to do that work."
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We asked Walden (Co-Founder of Cognition) about building a truly AI-native company. “At a minimum, we can’t be hiring people whose whole aspiration is to write code that Devin will do in 1–2 years.” "A lot of companies at our stage, they have like an internal tools team to maintain all the different services that engineers internally use." "And we can just staff that team with Devins, and then basically have engineers just sending requests to those Devins for how to do that work."

TBPN

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🚨ZUCK: "Probably in 2025, Meta, as well as other companies, will have an AI that can effectively be a mid-level engineer that you have at your company that can write code. In the beginning that will be very expensive to run, then at some point a lot of the code we have in our apps will be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers. In my opinion that will augment the people working on it. My view is that in the future people will be so much more creative and freed up to do crazy things."
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🚨ZUCK: "Probably in 2025, Meta, as well as other companies, will have an AI that can effectively be a mid-level engineer that you have at your company that can write code. In the beginning that will be very expensive to run, then at some point a lot of the code we have in our apps will be built by AI engineers instead of people engineers. In my opinion that will augment the people working on it. My view is that in the future people will be so much more creative and freed up to do crazy things."

Autism Capital 🧩

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AI is changing the software engineering craft. Anders Hejlsberg (Anders Hejlsberg) - creator of C#, TypeScript and industry legend - on why code review needs to get more enjoyable in response: #1 - AI is shifting the craft from writing code, to reviewing code: "In a sense, we're all turning into project managers. We can have an army of junior programmers, called agents, that will just spit out reams of code but someone's got to have the big picture and review all of that. And so, increasingly, our craft is going from one of writing the code, to one of reviewing the code and building the architecture of the code and overseeing the work. It's a different kind of craft. It's a different kind of enjoyment. I've always liked writing the code. To me that was the fulfilling part, seeing it work. In a way, AI robs a little bit of that, because I am less interested in reviewing code." #2 - The code review experience should be improved: "I think we could also make the process of reviewing code much more interesting than it is today. I mean, today, you see a list of diffs in alphabetical order and now it's up to you to make heads or tails of it. There are more pedagogical ways of presenting that. And you could have commentary generated by the AI that tells you what the changes are and whatever, and then tries to guide you along. So that symbiotic relationship, I think we need to work on that more and to keep the enjoyment in there."
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AI is changing the software engineering craft. Anders Hejlsberg (Anders Hejlsberg) - creator of C#, TypeScript and industry legend - on why code review needs to get more enjoyable in response: #1 - AI is shifting the craft from writing code, to reviewing code: "In a sense, we're all turning into project managers. We can have an army of junior programmers, called agents, that will just spit out reams of code but someone's got to have the big picture and review all of that. And so, increasingly, our craft is going from one of writing the code, to one of reviewing the code and building the architecture of the code and overseeing the work. It's a different kind of craft. It's a different kind of enjoyment. I've always liked writing the code. To me that was the fulfilling part, seeing it work. In a way, AI robs a little bit of that, because I am less interested in reviewing code." #2 - The code review experience should be improved: "I think we could also make the process of reviewing code much more interesting than it is today. I mean, today, you see a list of diffs in alphabetical order and now it's up to you to make heads or tails of it. There are more pedagogical ways of presenting that. And you could have commentary generated by the AI that tells you what the changes are and whatever, and then tries to guide you along. So that symbiotic relationship, I think we need to work on that more and to keep the enjoyment in there."

The Pragmatic Engineer

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