- The Windsurf IDE, with full access to the latest Anthropic Claude models;
- Windsurf’s IP, including trademark and brand;
- A user base of more than 350 enterprise customers and “hundreds of thousands” of daily active users.
The combined platforms will allow engineering teams to plan a task in Windsurf using Devin’s deep codebase understanding, and to delegate work to teams of AI agents so that they can tackle more difficult tasks in Windsurf via features such as Tab (code completion) and Cascade (multi-step code edits). “Then it seamlessly gets stitched back together all within the same environment,” Windsurf’s CEO Jeff Wang wrote in a blog post. He said the Cognition-Windsurf combo will allow for a “combined agent + IDE” that can lead to “breakthrough developer experiences.”
Mayham noted that, while Devin had strong autonomous capabilities, it lacked a practical interface for daily development. With Windsurf, Cognition will now have an enterprise-ready IDE where “autonomous workflows can live,” giving developers tools to manage higher-level architecture while delegating routine work to AI.
“The reason why Windsurf was attractive was because they moved beyond autocomplete and built a true agentic IDE,” said Mayham. “Their agent, Cascade, could refactor across multiple files, understand project architecture, run tests, and handle linting errors.”
