tonight I attended a demo from cognition about windsurf and devin and also got one month free pro subscription to try it out.

Event here https://luma.com/openbuild-dc?tk=q3nkid

It seems like the theme of the presentation is that coding has never been easier especially with windsurf and devin.

windsurf has the standard agentic coding ide that many of its competitors share (although a new proprietary model SWE-1.5 seems to show some promise)

devin itself has a chatgpt like interface but allows for connection with MCPs and coding workflows such as slack, linear, and github.

After the demo, there was a chance to play around with devin, where I actually made a game in the hour that I spent playing around with it.

The game is Egyptian Ratscrew, a reaction based card game, styled with old school cartoon animations.

Windsurf pretty much built the whole thing, and I was able to leverage phaser as the game engine and recraft for the vector graphics.

The game is deployed on railway and can be accessed at https://rats.kvec.ai

The power of these agentic coding IDEs continue to amaze me and during the event there were a lot of philosophical discussions about what "software engineering" means if it becomes more accessible to more people. There were a lot of concerns but I think people fail to realize that most people cannot focus their time on software engineering. They run real businesses providing real value, and these tools cannot become a priority for them. This is where software engineers need to step up and help provide that gap for everyone else.