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I don’t think the utility of Windsurf was the question. There is clearly a benefit for a tool/service like this. The questions raised by the article (as I saw

I don’t think the utility of Windsurf was the question. There is clearly a benefit for a tool/service like this. The questions raised by the article (as I saw it) were price and timing. $3B is a lot. Is that overpaying for something with a known value but limited reach? Not to mention competitors with deep pockets. And the other question is - why now? What was to be gained by OpenAI by buying Windsuf now.

firesteelrain 2y ago
It’s a Copilot competitor and it’s used by Zillow, Dell, and Anduril (newish Defense company). Cursor can’t work in airgapped environments right now. I don’t know what Codeium charges to run an on prem licensed version but they boast over 1000 enterprise customers. Codeium is on a rapid growth trajectory from $1.25b to $2.85b in such a short period. Codeium can be fine tuned. Though it’s trained on similar open source it does provide assurances that they do not inadvertently train on wrongly licensed software code. https://windsurf.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does-not https://windsurf.com/blog/copilot-trains-on-gpl-codeium-does...