Re:Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf
by 999900000999 on Tuesday July 15, 2025 @02:17AM
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Microsoft is obviously the elephant in the room.
I decide to try out the agent built into VS Code. It basically matches most of these fly by night "agent" ides which are mostly just VS Code forks anyway.
But it's weird. Because Microsoft can use Anthropic's API, funnel them revenue and take a loss on Copilot.
We're all getting this stuff heavily subsidized by either VC money or big corp money.
Microsoft can eat billions in losses on this if they become *the* provider of choice.
This stuff isn't perfect, but this is the worst it'll ever be. In 2 years it'll be able to replace many of us.
I decide to try out the agent built into VS Code. It basically matches most of these fly by night "agent" ides which are mostly just VS Code forks anyway.
But it's weird. Because Microsoft can use Anthropic's API, funnel them revenue and take a loss on Copilot.
We're all getting this stuff heavily subsidized by either VC money or big corp money.
Microsoft can eat billions in losses on this if they become *the* provider of choice.
This stuff isn't perfect, but this is the worst it'll ever be. In 2 years it'll be able to replace many of us.