Seriously? *Three Weeks*?!

Oh, for the love of all that is holy. Cognition, those bright sparks who thought acquiring Windsurf was a good idea, have decided – after a whopping three weeks – it wasn’t. Yeah, three weeks to realize they bought a lemon. Apparently, integrating Windsurf’s AI platform into their Devin product was… harder than they thought? Shocking.

Now they’re offering the entire Windsurf team the chance to leave with severance packages. Severance! Like that makes up for wasting everyone’s time and completely destabilizing their careers. They’re trying to spin it as “allowing staff to pursue other opportunities” – bullshit, it’s a cleanup operation after a spectacularly bad decision.

The article vaguely mentions “cultural differences” which translates to: “we didn’t bother doing due diligence and now we have no idea how to work with these people.” And of course, the CEO is all “disappointed” – yeah, *you’re* disappointed? Try being one of the poor sods who just had their job yanked out from under them.

Honestly, this whole thing reeks of over-hype and a complete lack of planning. Don’t even get me started on the “AI winter” predictions floating around. This is exactly what happens when venture capital throws money at anything with “AI” in the name. A total clusterfuck.

Source: TechCrunch

Speaking of bad acquisitions, I once had to integrate a new monitoring system that was supposed to “revolutionize” our network. It took three *months* just to get it to reliably report the correct time. Three months! And it still crashed more often than a Windows 95 machine. The vendor? Said it worked perfectly in their lab. Right. Labs are magical places where problems don’t exist, apparently.

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