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> Windsurf is providing OpenAI access to data? There's certainly some possibility that this is the case — though it makes me wonder just how bad OpenAI's relationship with Microsoft has gotten if they no longer have access to GitHub

This is missing an important nuance. The valuable data generated through coding copilots isn't the code, but the step by step human-AI interaction to produce the code.

Windsurf and Cursor are effectively crowdsourced data annotation farms which give their owners an edge in providing better coding models. I think this is way more important than talent or software in this deal.



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