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Copilot in VSCode is so far behind Windsurf, not terribly excited about this and still happy to pay for a Codeium pro account. My only fear is someone buying them and screwing up model access, but maybe it’s fine if that is Anthropic. GPT-4 is terrible at coding and o-1 isn’t tell tiene for practical use.

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Copilot VSCode felt like a Walmart product. Cursor was pretty good but I had to bail because of the bug where it deletes files when you reject a multi-file change: https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1gkj4xr/reject_chan...

Windsurf has been great. First week, no complaints. Seems to have the best responses too, although the hallucination level of all these is still too high for me to use it beyond trivial cases.

For anyone else who never heard of Windsurf, it seems this was announced a month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42127882

Tried windsurf and the beginning was amazing, last few days I start realizing that is getting annoyingly stupid and slow. Open reddit and realized lots of people had the same issue with a lot of wild theories about it. I stopped my subscription and I am considering trying cursor just to compare. Tldr;×trying an agent Ai coding assistant was amazing and I think I will never go back!

They use a lot of custom models and logic chaining, so I think this is more search and retrieval optimization or similar problems, I guess maybe some Anthropic API issues as well. I’ve seen the variance too and was wondering if was load related. Overall, still loving it, even if there’s some bleeding edge bumpiness.

Concur. Dropped Copilot for Cursor and then tried Windsurf. Windsurf is the keeper for me.

This is me too. Windsurf feels perfect right now.

Been using Windsurf for a couple months and it was almost perfect with Sonnet 3.5

They recently changed their pricing to some weird "Flow Action credits" system and MOST of the people are dissatisfied with that. I'm still looking for a replacement IDE because I mostly just chat and rarely use autocomplete.

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