Windsurf is the iPhone of AI code editors. It's cheaper than Cursor too, but is it better overall? By popular request, here's my in-depth review:

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Thanks for the review, we actually do have features like terminal AI with cmd+I. There’s a lot more to do and we want to give developers control which we have with @ mentions but we’d love to make the product intuitive like Google where results are personalized without guidance.

ah, I need to use that! I’ll update the blog post accordingly, amazing 🙏

Now that GitHub has launched Free plan for Co-pilot. Can you compare all three?

This is click-bait 101. It is not cheaper than @cursor_ai ... with cursors $20 plan it has free requests after you've used your 500 fast requests. @windsurf does not ,once our $15 it will be an aditionaly $10 for 300 completions - its an amazing product except the credit system.

Saw your video! I don't know, I just think the way that windsurf is ragging is better than cursor. There's something with their system prompts that give me better results

are you using the agent mode for cursor every time? I find I frequently forget, and get annoyed it doesn’t default to what I last used, and if you don’t do that you need to tag [at]codebase every time or ya there is basically no RAG

Nice review Steve! I came to a similar conclusion overall. Cursor's auto-tab, web/docs context, and the speed of Chat (not Compose) have been the 2 primary differentiators for me. I still find manual file tagging to be more reliable (and faster) than auto-context finding

Don’t get me wrong, I like Windsurf too. However, in terms of pricing, Windsurf increased their prices from $10 to $15 shortly after launch, and this is likely to happen again. Why? Because they cannot keep up with the costs of introducing new models, which have higher operational expenses on release day. The $15 price point is not feasible at the beginning.