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The Windsurf Editor

The first agentic IDE that merges AI agents and co-pilots

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Artificial Intelligence

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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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 From the proud makers of the Codeium IDE extensions, we are super excited to introduce the Windsurf Editor! Windsurf features Cascade, a new flagship feature that combines the best of both worlds: a copilot's collaborative intelligence with an agent's autonomous capabilities. For the past couple of years, we’ve been solely focused on building the Codeium extensions, which have been used by millions of developers worldwide. However, in our effort to continuously innovate and provide the best possible developer experience, there were certain features and workflows that necessitated ownership over the entire surface, which is why we set out to build an IDE in the first place. That being said, the extensions are definitely not going anywhere, and will continue to be supported 🤝 Whether you call it the first agentic IDE, the first purpose-built surface for developers to collaborate with AI, or think it’s just another lame fork of VS Code, we’d still love for you to try it out. Eventually, we’re confident you’ll think of it the same way we do - tomorrow's editor, today. We're offering two weeks of the full premium experience for free to everyone who tries the Windsurf Editor during launch week. We can't wait to hear what magical moments you discover while using it! 🏄Watch our launch video here: https://x.com/codeiumdev/status/... 👉Learn more on our website: https://codeium.com/windsurf

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I've spent decades creating tools for *other* engineers (I was on the Visual Studio team at MS and the Xcode team at Apple). The instant I finished reading the original paper on the transformer architecture I knew someone would invent Windsurf. While I fully understand the skepticism wrt gen AI, my personal experience has been amazing. Windsurf provides a streamlined version of what I'd already been doing (just with an amalgam of quickly hacked together tools). I'm glad the team chose to start with a VS Code fork instead of a simple extension. I already have a list of 20 things I'd like Windsurf to be able to do and some of those things will require access to the VS Code codebase. Their decision to handle everything means users will always have access to the latest/greatest. Fantastic job - congrats to everyone on the team!

Great neural network, the experience of using it left wonderful impressions. Thank you very much to the developers 💘

Honestly, you guys are way behind Cursor. This feels like a clumsy knockoff, but without the tech to back it up. I tried it out, and it’s practically useless—can’t even edit files properly. You really need to do more testing before putting this out. @anshulr

Man I'm just waiting in anticipation of you guys will make next! This is the best technology I've ever used. Thanks a lot Team Codeium all the way from Ghana.

It's everything I like about VSCode, plus seamless AI integration with the most powerful models out there today. Extremely reasonable pricing as well.

Downloaded it yesterday and only used it for one day. But I can already see this is going to be my default editor forever. The experience is much different from other AI code editors and fits perfectly into my workflow. Congrats on the launch to the team. 🥳🎉

I’ve been using Codeium for about 1 year and 9 months now. Initially, I used the VS Code extension for Codeium, and it has been a game-changer. It’s helped me a lot with writing boring scaffolding code, documenting projects, and learning new coding patterns. It simplifies so many of the struggles I face, especially when working on large, scalable projects. ❤️ Recently, when Windsurf launched, I watched Codeium’s official YouTube video and decided to give it a try—and I instantly fell in love with it. It’s incredible to see how it thinks through problems, and if it encounters a bug, it comes up with a better solution. I even tried building a weather app with it, and to my amazement, it automatically installed dependencies and created files for me! Wow, I was blown away. I feel an emotional connection with Codeium because, early in my coding journey, I struggled a lot. I used GitHub Copilot for a while, but when it switched to a paid version, I discovered Codeium. Since then, I’ve been using it daily, and it’s been a fantastic companion. I even emailed the team to thank them for their work. To the Codeium team: keep up the amazing work! Love from Rasla (me). ❤️

It does a great job to understand the context but it is missing some key features that cursor has: (1) it doesn't take image in chat so I cannot tell it to reproduce the UI in image. (2) i cannot take url link as documentation that are the 2 key features i think you should support.

Been testing Windsurf for the past day. Incredible experience. I've touched Typescript probably 3-4 times in my life. I understand the basic notions, but my knowledge is not deep enough in order to build something from scratch + it looking good. With Windsurf, in 1 day, I've been able to boot up a simple webapp with Next.js, shadcn and some AI APIs, with prod. infra deployed to GCP. This is probably one of the best programming experiences I've had ever. I feel lke tony stark building his Mark 1 suit when prompting the cascade workflow. Keep it coming codeium! :)

Simply incredible - decided to switch from co-pilot the first time I interacted with Cascade

This is the code editor I will stick with. Really redefines the flow of my work, and it makes coding really fun when you don't have to spend time for chores (just ask AI to do them) and do the real and meaningful stuff yourself.

Hi, Its a great product and truly impressed with its capabilities. Suddenly having a issue An error occurred while loading view: windsurf.chatPanelView. Please sort that so I can continue to evaluate the product

Tried it yesterday on Linux (i use Arch, btw) and it works like a charm. Windsurf doesn't seem to have any rate limits when using Sonnet 3.5 with Cascade, which is great, and the full contextual awareness of the project is awesome. Only thing missing for me personally is the option to explicitly reference the documentation of a certain library (which would've saved me some time debugging) or framework, add a new documentation of a recently published project or scrape something from the web (or i'm missing how i would do that). But so far Windsurf is great to use. I recommend giving it a try and i could see myself ditching my Cline/Continue/VsCode setup in the future for this.

Windsurf is already making waves among my colleagues and truly feels like the next natural step in the developer workflow. It’s incredibly promising—I’m rooting for the team behind it :)

I love that Windsurf is lightweight and unlike PyCharm and VScode it doesn't freeze my old laptop with only 4GB of RAM. With Cascade I finished editing a project in 20 minutes (it would take me several weeks). It's like having an employee that writes code and fixes bugs.