Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan says code generation is just the appetizer. Real engineering is debugging, testing, system design. As AI agents tap logs, databases, and browser context, “every aspect is going to be 10× more effective.” The real disruption is in engineering cognition.

Windsurf CEO & co-founder Varun Mohan on 20VC (thx @curiousgangsta):

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Exactly. Code is the easy part, real value shows up when agents start thinking like engineers. The shift isn’t automation, it’s amplification of how we reason through systems.

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He’s 100% right. On the code side I would add security and authentication code needs to get much much better. And then someone needs to build an Ai agentic software engineer that specifically for the blockchain space trained on all the programming languages like MOVE | Solidity | Rust | etc

10× more effective? Sounds like AI is about to make debugging the new art form. Hope engineers are ready for the creativity boost. Time to elevate those cognitive skills, folks.

Correct

AI that understands context, not just code, makes debugging and design feel less like grunt work and more like creativity.

Exactly. Code is the easy part, real value shows up when agents start thinking like engineers. The real change isn’t automation, it’s amplification of how we reason through systems.

AI that understands context, not just code, makes debugging and design feel less like grunt work and more like creativity. 💜

We need to move beyond one-shot demo grandstanding. LLMs objectively suck at debugging and maintenance of code.