Understand Code Before You Vibe It?

That tagline with the made-up graph instantly raises a red flag, but the core idea is surprisingly cool. Windsurf’s new owner, Cognition (following the failed OpenAI acquisition), has shipped a new feature called Codemaps.

The idea is to significantly ease codebase understanding. This actually looks incredibly useful, especially when tackling an existing codebase, say, an open-source project, and it might get me to switch over from Cursor.

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