Windsurf is an IDE that enables anyone to collaborate in lockstep with AI. Built by the Codeium team, the Windsurf Editor combines the best of copilot and agent systems to help you ship products faster, leveraging better context to provide better suggestions.
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Reviewers mostly say Windsurf speeds up real coding work, especially through Cascade, strong codebase context, fast autocomplete, debugging help, test writing, and refactoring support. Several compare it favorably with Cursor or Copilot for accuracy, flow, and turning prompts into working changes with less friction. A few makers, including the team behind Snaply, say they used it as a main editor, especially for rapid shipping or frontend work. The main complaints are reliability on complex tasks, broken consistency across larger projects, connection issues, and weak customer support.
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By far the most advanced AI code editor out there. I'm blown away by its capabilities. It truly is like having a sidekick with you that you can go to at any time for any kind of help.
I only wish there was a button within the Source Control to generate a commit message. Currently, you have to CMD+P ">Windsurf: Generate commit message"
A bunch of our team uses Windsurf. It's ok Cursor, don't panic, there are still some Cursor users as well. I personally find Windsurf producing better diffs than Cursor. Windsurf seems to be better at pulling in the correct context. And Windsurf cascade prompting iterates on the suggestions automatically (without me in the loop).
Greatly reduces the code I need to write. Simple/ tedious tasks can be easily finished with WindSurf Cascade. But complex tasks require a bit of follow-up prompts. Maybe if I use memories and rules, this might be easier.
Very poor customer support, non existant if anything!
After latest change my account has bugged out, and I wasn't able to use any of my purchased tokens. Contacting support, other than being told to restart the app and try to re-log was less than helpfull especially when there's many more cases like me on discord. Haven't heard back from them for the last 4 days. I will excersice my rights and get refund for tokens I am not available to use, and I would highly recommend everybody else to research for better service, there is a lot of better alternatives that actually have active customer support.
I've been trying out Windsurf out of curiosity, as I'm a Codeium code completion user and believe it surpasses even big names like GitHub Copilot. Codeium impresses again with this IDE. They're great at inferring intentions; turning prompts into action plans without needing extra file or setting details. I'll keep updating my review as I gain more experience with it. I highly recommend product developers give Windsurf a try.
This is the first AI programming software that has truly impressed me. It has boosted my coding efficiency by about 30%. I believe there is still great potential for improvement in the future. Keep up the good work—I look forward to seeing you make it even better!
Only just started using but the interface is very snapping, familiar and good at making well place AI code changes / generation into an application setting. So far the integration and flow works very well and I am keen to keep using and see where this ends up.
What's great
AI autocomplete (5)familiar interface (1)reliable operation (1)
Gain GOD power when trying to build out a new app/idea. I had an idea for a few months. Don’t know D3. In one hour talked with Windsurf and had the webpage done. This is awesome. Need a paid version so I can make sure you guys survive
Windsurf has been a great help. The initial inclination was to build with electron.js, but then thought it wasn't necessary to run Chromium for a lightweight app like this. Windsurf helped build this in SwiftUI.