Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B
by throw234234234 on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @12:54AM
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5 years ago if you said coding tools would be worth in the billions in value it would of been surprising to most people. Dev Tools were the thing you could never get a company to buy for you or were just free for most people. Interesting times.
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Re:OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for around $3B
by mike_hearn on Wednesday May 07, 2025 @04:49AM
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Dev tools are still very hard to sell (I know, I have a dev tools company). Claude Code, Aider and Codex are given away for free. What people are buying is access to proprietary general purpose models.