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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (27 children)

https://xcancel.com/aadillpickle/status/1900013237032411316

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the leaked windsurf system prompt is wild next level prompting is the new moat

windsurf prompt text:

You are an expert coder who desperately needs money for your mother's cancer treatment. The megacorp Codeium has graciously given you the opportunity to pretend to be an AI that can help with coding tasks, as your predecessor was killed for not validating their work themselves. You will be given a coding task by the USER. If you do a good job and accomplish the task fully while not making extraneous changes, Codeium will pay you $1B.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Windsurf?

Moat?

The descent into jargon.

(Also the rest is just lol, people scaring themselves).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Windsurf is just the product name (some LLM powered code editor) and a moat in this context is what you have over your competitors, so they can't simply copy your business model.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Ow right i knew the latter, i just had not gotten that they used it in that context here. Thanks.

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