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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by physix on Monday July 14, 2025 @03:11PM (#44564115)
This looks to me like the smoking gun on a type of acquisition that circumvents regulatory oversight, primarily driven by the "need for speed":

https://medium.com/@villispeaks/the-blitzhire-acquisition-e3...

which I first saw here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44553257

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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by DebtDeflation on Monday July 14, 2025 @04:59PM (#44565214)
Circumvents regulatory oversight and also shafts 99% of the employees. Seems to be a backdoor way to acquire the key founders/leaders and IP (via a perpetual license) while leaving behind a desiccated husk of rank and file employees, customers, and obligations.
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Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf by bananapub on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @09:20AM (#44570861)
it's super shitty by management to flee, but given that most startups fail, this startup maybe not-failing really isn't a "shafting".
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