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“I was given an offer that would explode same day.”

The AI talent wars are intense! Here’s Windsurf’s second hire describing the way Google came in and reverse acquihired the core AI research team. He didn’t take the deal and is now at another AI coding startup called Cognition, which acquired the rest of Windsurf that Google didn’t want.

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