Prescient, this hasn't changed at all

I find myself thinking about windsurf a lot even a week later I don't even understand -- as the founders you're already locking in generational wealth. Lock in 100m less and preserve your reputation, make the money less cursed Feels not only evil but EV negative, almost stupid

Imo lesson in here in abandoning mission -- missionaries over mercenaries only works if you're a missionary

I'm frankly a counter example of this point (dropped out to be employee ~25 at Ramp, obviously correct decision) and I still think Paul G is correct here I think it took me a lot longer to be happy / find a sense of community in adult life than my peers who stayed in college

My counterpoint to Charles Darwin is the number of these mfs just walking into the road without looking

Gemini would have 10x the volume if they cleaned up auth experience and api token provisioning

I’ve joined Cognition to continue to work on the future of software engineering. I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years. There’s never been a more exciting time and place for it than now at Cognition. I had a place at Google DeepMind as part of the deal. I won’t go into detail for legal reasons, but I’d like to be transparent about my personal situation. I was given an offer that would explode same day. I had to forfeit all of my vested shares earned over my 3.5+ years at Windsurf. I was ultimately given a payout of only 1% of what my shares would have been worth at the time of the deal. In going to Cognition, I’ve chosen a different direction. For someone who loves software engineering, Cognition feels like home. It reminds me of the energy of the earliest days of Windsurf, where we wrote excessive amounts of code and had excessive amounts of fun. Really excited to see how we can take the best of Devin and Windsurf to make the world’s best IDE and coding agents.

You can't really accuse your employees of taking ur usb c cable but I swear to god one of these mfs has my usb c cable

Vibe coding custom devtools for your specific stack is actually my best pmf for vibe coding

Founding engineers after you close the seed