> We don’t believe in work-life balance—building the future of software engineering is a mission we all care so deeply about that we couldn’t possibly separate the two
What did I just read? How can you think/say/write that in a public email?
I canceled my Windsurf subscription. I had/have no interested in supporting Cognition/Devin; the recent comments by Scott Wu to the Windsurf team was the motivation I needed to move to zed/claude code.
If you're a current Windsurf customer, I hope you consider an alternative product and migrate quickly.
Ditto.
I've spent a few hours with Kilo Code over last few days. It seems to have something solid to work with. Zed feels really nice, but I haven't quite found the entry angle for working with my stuff just yet.
>employees were given until August 10 to decide whether they want to take the buyout, which amounts to nine months of salary
This isn't a "buyout" and it certainly isn't "making them whole" which is what they said they'd do a couple of weeks ago. This is just a layoff with a severance payment.
As I said when the initial story broke, this is setting a terrible precedent for the startup world. Why on earth would anyone join a startup and accept low cash comp in exchange for equity if the default terminal event will be an acqui-hire of the founders with all other employees being shown the door rather than an IPO or acquisition?
Ouch. Relative to myself and all those I'm in IRL contact with, I expect all 230 of them are extremely well compensated, so no tears, but also: that sucks, and those 'leaders' are assholes. No decency or professionalism at all.
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[ 3.5 ms ] story [ 20.8 ms ] threadIs that normal for any of those on here working for an AI company?
What did I just read? How can you think/say/write that in a public email?
If you're a current Windsurf customer, I hope you consider an alternative product and migrate quickly.
This isn't a "buyout" and it certainly isn't "making them whole" which is what they said they'd do a couple of weeks ago. This is just a layoff with a severance payment.
As I said when the initial story broke, this is setting a terrible precedent for the startup world. Why on earth would anyone join a startup and accept low cash comp in exchange for equity if the default terminal event will be an acqui-hire of the founders with all other employees being shown the door rather than an IPO or acquisition?