SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) - Work weekends or take a buyout? That's reportedly the message employees at AI startup Windsurf received after being acquired by fellow AI coding startup, Cognition.

Tech insider blog The Information reports that after cutting 30 employees, Cognition offered the remaining 200 team members at Windsurf a stark choice: Take the buyout or stay on and work six days or 80 hours a week.

"We don't believe in work-life balance," wrote Cognition CEO Scott Wu in an email to staff, as reported by The Information, "building the future of software engineering is a mission we all care so deeply about that we couldn't possibly separate the two."

Based in San Francisco, Cognition is an applied AI lab that builds end-to-end software. Wu, the company's CEO, boasts of maintaining an "

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