Engineering at the Speed of Change

In this RAISE Summit talk, Windsurf’s Field CTO, Alex Laubscher, lays out how an agentic IDE keeps enterprises on the AI frontier as code creation, tooling, and models change weekly—sometimes hourly. The message: competitive edge now comes from adaptation, not mere adoption. Windsurf shows how extending an agent’s scope (memories, rules, workflows) and surfacing the right context (MCP integrations, in-IDE browser) turns coding assistants into end-to-end software builders for complex, brownfield codebases.

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Key discussion points include:

• From autocomplete to agents: Why feature velocity matters—Windsurf ships frontier capabilities every ~3 weeks (memories, rules, workflows), expanding how long and how far agents can run.
• Measurable impact: Enterprises are seeing up to ~90% of code authored by AI; staying on old assistants means falling rapidly behind.
• Built for the enterprise: 1M users but focus on Fortune-scale rollouts (JPMC, Dell, Anduril). Security & compliance first: FedRAMP in the U.S.; new Frankfurt data center for GDPR-compliant compute and data retention in the EU.
• Brownfield advantage: Large, intertwined codebases need accurate retrieval and reasoning; Windsurf highlights wins where expected pilot use cases were surpassed by emergent, higher-value ones.
• New product surfaces: The Windsurf Browser brings live app context into the IDE; agents can inspect, tweak UI elements, and update code in real time.
• Design-to-code, agentically: Using MCP to pull assets and specs (e.g., Figma links), “Cascade” converts screenshots/designs into implementation, enforces org rules/standards, previews changes, and iterates in-place.
• Change management matters: Deployment engineering, governance, and verification are as critical as models—otherwise AI investments churn before value accrues.

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