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Kevin Hou, head of product technology at Windsurf, said that the competence in three categories makes a “successful” engineer.
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Those areas cod, know when they should look for external support and the vague “metal bearings,” he said.
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Windsurf wants to replicate the processes of human programmers, he said on the AI engineer World’s Fair.
Windsurf’s Head of Product Engineering believes that the skill makes a successful software engineer in three important areas – coding, research and “Metal Arning”.
Technical Fundamentals are primarily, said Kevin Hou van Windsurf in a presentation on the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco.
“If we zoom out and think about what you all make software engineers successful, there are a number of different categories. The first of which coding-related reads, performing terminal assignments, seeing your history, even which tabs you have opened in your editor. This indicates how you can generate the right code.”
Then there is knowing how to search for support from external sources, you added.
“Things like going to Github and watching a past history of commits, maybe looking at a PR that does something that looks like the position you are going to implement, online searches, do web searches, watch documentation,” he said.
And finally there is “Metal Arning,” said the Windsurf Product Engineering Head, who, according to him, separates the lace -up coders from the newcomers.
“It is the idea of what a junior engineer separates from a senior engineer, from a staff engineer,” he said. “These are the best practices of the organization, the technical preferences, all of which are encrypted in what makes good code.”
Windsurf, which produces AI coding tools for developers and was recently taken over by OpenAi for a reported $ 3 billion, is intended to imitate all aspects that form the process of a special capable programmer, Hou said. The majority of what human engineers are doing now, he added, the company tries to automate – it ultimately so that people are only responsible for the final approval.
“We know it’s not enough to read alone,” he said. “We have to be able to do it and write. We have to be able to do it all for you. And so the AI must take action on a wide range of surfaces that go beyond the coding surface to achieve what a human software engineer would do.”
Windsurf is ultimately looking for software engineering “99% agent and 1% human,” you added.
“And as more and more of these timelines and workflows are AI-driven, it becomes possible to make Windsurf work for you at all times,” he said. “Not only if you type and use autocomplete and tab, but also in the background – examine when you work, completely parallel, only ask you to approve it.”
Windsurf did not respond to a request for extra comments from Business Insider prior to publication.
As AI-assisted coding becomes increasingly popular, companies have already started hiring fewer human employees. Employees in the early career in the technical atmosphere are particularly hard. In an ideal world, however, says that windsurf will help to make programming a more accessible process, not one that is not at all people.
“We want to build this future where you can code at any time, you can write software at any time,” said Hou.
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