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Prem Qu Nair

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Prem Qu Nair

@premqnair

@cognition/@windsurf, previously @nuro @princeton. Pursuing 70mm, 225lb, and $0.10/piece

San Francisco, CA

Joined March 2011

Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Jul 24, 2025
I’ve joined Cognition to continue to work on the future of software engineering. I was employee #2 at Windsurf and have worked on AI+code for years. There’s never been a more exciting time and place for it than now at Cognition. I had a place at Google DeepMind as part of the
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Jul 25, 2025
Mom I made it
TBPN
@tbpn
Jul 24, 2025
BREAKING: @premqnair has left Google for Cognition.
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Mar 12, 2025
lol @andyzhang you really dodged a bullet there
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Oct 28, 2025
Feeling nostalgic, so here's a Windsurf lore drop. Very few people know this, but Windsurf and Cursor used to share a Slack channel and even worked together a little bit I believe this predates: 1. the pivot from Exafunction to Codeium (and later Windsurf) 2. Aman and Michael
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Oct 27, 2025
Falcons are faster than cheetahs Jokes aside let us know what you think!
Devin Desktop
@devindesktop
Oct 27, 2025
You can now try a new stealth model in Windsurf. Falcon Alpha is a powerful agentic model designed for speed. We're excited to hear what you think ⚡️
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Sep 8, 2025
More than just the funding round, so thrilled to have my friends Emily and swyx around now :)
Cognition
@cognition
Sep 8, 2025
We’ve raised over $400M at a $10.2B post-money valuation to advance the frontier of AI coding agents. The round was led by Founders Fund with other existing investors including Lux, 8VC, Neo, Elad Gil, Definition Capital, and Swish VC all doubling down. We’re also joined by new
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Nov 29, 2023
Finally time for a customer reveal! It's been great working with @anduriltech
Anduril on Windsurf
From devin.ai
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Aug 14, 2025
Wave 12 is here :) As someone who finds themselves doing large refactors a bit too often, Vibe and Replace is going to be such a speedup for me
Devin Desktop
@devindesktop
Aug 14, 2025
Wave 12 is here, and it’s a big one! 📚 DeepWiki-powered docs for every symbol in your codebase 🔍 Vibe and Replace 🐛 100+ bugs squashed 🎨 Brand new UI … and more! Everything that’s new 🧵
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Oct 29, 2025
What's most exciting about this is we still have ways to make it even faster. Kudos to @jacobtpl and team for getting this out!
Cognition
@cognition
Oct 29, 2025
Today we’re releasing SWE-1.5, our fast agent model. It achieves near-SOTA coding performance while setting a new standard for speed. Now available in @windsurf.
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Jan 17, 2025
brb closing Chrome forever now that we have web search
Devin Desktop
@devindesktop
Jan 17, 2025
Wave 2 is here. Included in this update: 🌐Web Search 🧠Autogenerated Memories 💼Enterprise Ready ... and many more!
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Nov 4, 2025
Codemaps brings agentic codebase understanding to humans! Do you like the outline or the diagram view better?
Cognition
@cognition
Nov 4, 2025
Introducing Codemaps in @windsurf! powered by SWE-1.5 and Sonnet 4.5 “Your code is your understanding of the problem you’re exploring. So it’s only when you have your code in your head that you really understand the problem.” — @paulg
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Oct 30, 2025
Best part of the demo is the name SlopTown
Cognition
@cognition
Oct 30, 2025
Devin now has full computer use capabilities and can share screen recordings. You can control desktop apps, build and QA mobile apps, and automate tedious work. Here are some examples that blew our team away: 1. Making a desktop game
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Oct 20, 2025
windsurf 🤝 gcp
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Prem Qu Nair
@premqnair
Jun 4, 2025
I will now be accepting my honorary Nvidia shares
Kevin Lacker
@lacker
Jun 2, 2025
We all owe a debt to the PC gamers, who nobly funded years of GPU development before the rest of the world understood how useful they were.
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