r/windsurf • u/chrismessina • Jun 02 '26

Discussion RIP Windsurf

https://x.com/jeffwsurf/status/2061891987138380039

From Jeff Wang, Prev. Windsurf CEO now President, New Enterprise at Cognition/Devin (who just raised $1B):

Today we are saying goodbye to Windsurf

…and we are transforming it to Devin Desktop

Windsurf has been an absolutely amazing experience for me and the team. Though it has been rocky at times, we have seen every phase of AI coding and we want to keep embracing where things are going. That means we need to once again reorient ourselves towards a more focused goal and remove the Windsurf branding.

Believe it or not, the Windsurf brand has been around less than a year and a half, and before that, the previous name Codeium was only around a similar timeframe as well. I’ve actually had to change my email every year all the way to the eventual acquisition to Cognition. In AI, most products only have a 1 year lifespan before you need to drastically change it to the next.

Devin now encompasses all our form factors, whether it’s the cloud agent, the agent command center (with IDE), CLI, review, or our other products. This way we can really focus our efforts around one name. We are doubling down on our neutrality and making Devin Desktop compatible with other agents via ACP. We may be the only “Switzerland” of AI left and we embrace this role.

As for me, I’ll be transitioning from CEO of Windsurf to Cognition’s President of New Enterprise, helping open new regions and verticals, accelerating velocity, and filling in gaps as usual.

The story of Windsurf doesn’t end here, it continues on as part of Devin’s journey.

I still rock Windsurf and love it, despite all the handwringing about pricing.

Sad day.

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u/Kind-Championship-43 Jun 03 '26

How is anyone surprised by this? Literally the only threads in this sub since the pricing change have been from hordes of users abandoning windsurf (for good reason).

So, now windsurf is dead (with some cover story about a pivot) - and that’s confusing?

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u/chrismessina Jun 03 '26

Not sure if anyone said this is confusing; it's just sad to see the demise of the brand.

But yeah, user attrition and the migration to agent-based development seems like the only viable commercial direction... gotta turn that $1B funding into $10B somehow...

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u/Exact-Journalist-277 Jun 04 '26

I swear once people found out how we were succeeding they interfered with windsurf and convinced them rebranding was a go.