[jstummbillig]

It can write a lot of code, that works, better than vscode can (right now).

It's in a lot of ways the OpenAI story itself: Can they keep an edge? Or is there at least something that will keep people from just switching product?

Who knows. People have opinions, of course. OpenAIs opinion (which should reasonably count for something, them being the current AI-as-a-product leader) is worth $3B as of today.

[mliker]

Windsurf works well with Claude and Gemini models, so if OpenAI forces Windsurf users to only use OpenAI models, then it wouldn't be as useful.

[throwup238]

I doubt they'll restrict it to their own models. The amount of business intel they'd get on the coding performance of competing models would be invaluable.

[jonny_eh]

They'll make ChatGPT the default, and defaults are powerful.