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I've been coding with the Windsurf editor for a week and just wanted to share my raw first impressions of it (NOT SPONSORED BY WINDSURF, btw). Keep in mind, I'm coming from using only things like tabnine or copilot (which I haven't used in a while, but did play around with and test) so a lot of these features are generally new to me. I've never used Cursor or any of the others, so I can't compare the two.
And again, this really is just a first impression of Windsurf, not a full review or anything like that. Once I have more experience with it, in various languages and sizes of codebases, I'll make a more in-depth video of my experience - probably in a month from now.
So I Coded with Windsurf for a Week
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0:00 what I’ve coded with Windsurf
0:46 I should be coding on Neovim in NixOS, I know I know
1:21 not sponsored by Windsurf
3:09 Windsurf = VS Code fork with AI
3:45 My First Impression of Windsurf wasn’t good
4:01 Windsurf Cascade
7:35 Issues I’ve faced
9:23 I’m happy it’s a VS Code fork
10:24 Iterative problem solving
10:47 Knowledge is outdated
11:41 AI in the terminal
12:24 Live testing Windsurf with my crappy Rust code
15:16 I still need to try it in a large codebase
15:48 What’s Next
15:53 You didn’t see this…
15:56 What’s Next
A portion of this video is sponsored by Micro Center.
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