Attended Windsurf's Build Night 18 hours before founders joined Google DeepMind

23 points by schwentkerr 356 days ago | 3 comments

Thursday evening: Windsurf hosted their first community build night in SF. 200 developers, live demos of Wave 10 (Planning Mode, browser integration), MCP plugin architecture, real projects built in hours.

Friday afternoon: OpenAI acquisition canceled, CEO Varun Mohan and co-founder Douglas Chen join Google DeepMind for agentic coding initiatives. The timing is remarkable. We witnessed what may have been the final public appearance of Windsurf's founding team as an independent company, completely unaware of what was coming.

The technical demos were impressive - DOM-aware browser integration, AI agents with standardized tool access via MCP, enterprise admin controls. The community energy was genuine.

Article w/ details: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/night-day-silicon-valley-windsurfs-final-build-before-schwentker-s2dfc

Curious about HN's take on:

* The competitive dynamics - Google vs OpenAI talent acquisition

* What this means for the AI development tools space

* Whether the remaining team can maintain momentum

The pace of change in this industry continues to be extraordinary.

arkmm 353 days ago |

A bit of a minor detail, but this piqued my interest "DOM-aware browser integration" - could you say a little more?

exclipy 353 days ago | |

You can select an element by clicking on it and it knows where in the React code it came from

deverman 354 days ago |

I was curious about this they still have an event scheduled in Bangkok next week. lol I remember listening to a podcast with a windsurf representative and they sounded like a super technical team and sounded like they "fell" into coding tools. Guess they were offered more interesting money to work on something else.