Windsurf’s Varun Mohan Teaches Enterprises About AI-Driven Development | VB Transform 2025

Beyond Copilots: What Windsurf’s Agentic IDE Teaches Enterprises About AI-Driven Development Windsurf’s agentic IDE shot past 1 million developers in four months, and it claims it writes more than half the code committed by its customer base. CEO Varun Mohan unpacks what that runaway uptake means for enterprise tech leaders who are weighing their own agent-powered dev stacks – especially as OpenAI’s reported $3 billion bid puts Windsurf on every CIO watch list. Key themes he’ll cover: - From autocomplete to “AI Flows.” Why keeping the AI and human in a shared project state – Windsurf’s “mind-meld” loop – delivers multi-file refactors and test suites the moment a PR lands.. - Guardrails that satisfy enterprise audit teams. How Windsurf routes agent actions through policy gates (repo-scoped permissions, hybrid model options) so customers can adopt without exposing proprietary code. - Small-team velocity lessons. Mohan’s contrarian choice to cap product squads at four people – and the throughput metrics that convinced early Fortune 500 pilots to scale. - What’s next for agentic dev tooling. An inside look at Windsurf’s forthcoming open protocol for plugging any LLM – or on-prem model – into the same flow state, keeping vendor lock-in at bay.