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> to develop their own frontier coding model

Uh, the irony is that this is exactly what Windsurf tried.

As an actual user of Windsurf model, I don't think "tried" is fair. I sometimes use it. It's not as smart as Gemini but it iterates quicker and is very well aligned with their tool calls

Why did they fail?

It's both hard AND expensive.

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