Windsurf's head of product engineering says a successful software engineer is proficient in these 3 skill categories
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Kevin Hou, head of product engineering at Windsurf, presented at the AI Engineer World's Fair, emphasizing the essential competencies for software engineers. He identified three core areas for success: coding skills, the ability to seek external support through resources like GitHub, and metalearning. The latter involves understanding best practices and preferences that contribute to high-quality coding. Windsurf aims to develop AI tools that emulate skilled programmers and recently gained attention for being acquired by OpenAI for $3 billion.
If we zoom out and think about what makes you all software engineers successful… the first of which – coding-related. File reads, running terminal commands, seeing your history...
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