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As AI-powered tools spread through enterprise software stacks, AI coding platform Windsurf’s rapid growth is becoming a case study in what happens when developers adopt agentic tooling at scale.
In a session at this week’s VentureBeat Transform 2025 conference, CEO and co-founder Varun Mohan discussed how Windsurf’s integrated development environment (IDE) surpassed one million developers within four months of launch. More notably, the platform now writes over half of the code committed by its user base.
The conversation, moderated by VentureBeat CEO Matt Marshall, opened with a brief but pointed disclaimer: Mohan could not comment on the widely reported potential acquisition of Windsurf by OpenAI.
The issue has drawn attention following a Wall Street Journal report detailing a brewing standoff between OpenAI and Microsoft over the terms of that deal and broader tensions within their multi-billion-dollar partnership. According to the WSJ, OpenAI is seeking to acquire Windsurf without giving Microsoft access to its intellectual property— an issue that could reshape the enterprise AI coding landscape.
With that context set aside, the session focused on Windsurf’s technology, enterprise traction, and vision for agentic development.
Moving past autocomplete
Windsurf’s IDE is built around what the company calls a “mind-meld” loop — a shared project state between human and AI that enables full coding flows rather than autocomplete suggestions. With this setup, agents can perform multi-file refactors, write test suites, and even launch UI changes the moment a pull request is initiated.
Mohan emphasized that coding assistance can’t stop at code generation. “Only about 20 to 30% of a developer’s time is spent writing code. The rest is debugging, reviewing, and testing. To truly assist, an AI system needs access to all those data sources,” he explained.
Windsurf recently embedded a browser inside its IDE, allowing agents to test changes, read logs, and interact with live interfaces directly—much like a human engineer would.
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