Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE - with Varun and Anshul of Codeium AI
Our second podcast guest ever in March 2023 was Varun Mohan, CEO of Codeium; at the time, they had around 10,000 users and how they vowed to keep their autocomplete free forever: Today, over a million developers use their products, they still have their free tier, and they recently launched Windsurf, an AI IDE.
Chapters
* 00:00:00: Introductions & Catchup
* 00:03:52: Why they created Windsurf
* 00:05:52: Limitations of VS Code
* 00:10:12: Evaluation methods for Cascade and Windsurf
* 00:16:15: Listener questions about Windsurf launch
* 00:20:30: Remote execution and security concerns
* 00:25:18: Evolution of Codeium's strategy
* 00:28:29: Cascade and its capabilities
* 00:33:12: Multi-agent systems
* 00:37:02: Areas of improvement for Windsurf
* 00:39:12: Building an enterprise-first company
* 00:42:01: Copilot for X, AI UX, and Enterprise AI blog posts
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A developer's toolkit for SOTA AI
Chris sat down with Varun Mohan and Anshul Ramachandran, CEO / Cofounder and Lead of Enterprise and Partnership at Codeium, respectively. They discussed how to streamline and enable modern development in generative AI and large language models (LLMs). Their new tool, Codeium, was born out of the insights they gleaned from their work in GPU software and solutions development, particularly with respect to generative AI, large language models, and supporting infrastructure. Codeium is a free AI-powered toolkit for developers, with in-house models and infrastructure - not another API wrapper.
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Featuring:
Varun Mohan – LinkedIn
Anshul Ramachandran – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Show Notes:
Codeium
What GitHub Copilot Lacks: Fine-tuning on Your Private Code
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