Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and Brandon Whichard (@bwhichard) discuss the big changes happening around AI developer-assistants, across Cursor, Windsurf, OpenAI and Google.
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Topic 1 - What happened (basics of the pricing change)?
Topic 2 - How was this communicated?
Topic 3 - Where was the confusion?
Topic 4 - Wasn’t this inevitable because of huge costs and funding rounds?
Topic 5 - How do we square the “developers don’t pay for anything” and “AI-native vs. AI-augmented” when developers are still in the loop?
Topic 6 - Does this inevitability mean AI coding-assistants can’t be a standalone business, but need to be in a bundle?
Topic 7 - WTF Windsurf?
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