Windsurf
Building MCP servers for AI agents, Roblox development with AI assistance, Running multi-agent code reviews in agentic environments
It's a powerful AI coding environment but routes your code through its servers, adding cost and privacy considerations.
Cost-sensitive users who want to avoid expensive API fees and middlemen routing code through private servers
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FIRST-HAND READS
What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.
“When you ask Cursor or Windsurf to build an n8n workflow, it often breaks the JSON schema”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Hacker News · 2026-03-11
“switched to Windsurf Cascade because they have a fast, free model called SWE 1.5”
POSITIVE · performance · youtube · 2026-01-09
“Almost all the code was generated by Windsurf with Claude Sonnet 4.5. This was an interesting experiment - I never thought I could actually pull this off. It's fascinating to see what's possible with AI-assisted development today.”
POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-11-24
“Things like Windsurf and Junie on the other hand seem to be mostly a waste of time as they go off and do stuff for 5-20 minutes and when they get back it is usually pretty screwed up an a lot of effort to understand what's wrong with it and fix it”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-07-21
“lesser prompts and less tokens and cycles than with CC or even windsurf”
NEGATIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2025-07-13
“Works really well with technical language specifically when using with claude code, cursor, windsurf.”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2025-06-30
“Windsurf shows them inline. This makes viewing more practical, in my opinion.”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-19
“you can utilize the normal AI agent/IDE:s (cursor/windsurf) to implement the code for you”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-05-19
“Windsurf SWE- This LLM is actually fantastic. My use case is simple fucking LUA but its like this LLM was trained to write in this language. Its really fucking good. Huge step up for Windsurf and separates it from Cursor now, and dirt fucking cheap.”
POSITIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-05-19
“Windsurf should stop chasing shiny frontier models and focus on building better predictable & manageable workflows to build real-life products”
NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2025-05-19
“i open both Windsurf in which i have no extensions, i just use it for chatting and suggesting changes”
POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-04-30
“So far I'm still using Cursor, Windsurf, and Cline, but for serious projects I prefer the last one.”
LUKEWARM · Reddit · 2025-04-28
“Windsurf (although this is really a hit or miss depending on the release)”
NEGATIVE · reliability · Reddit · 2025-04-19
“WindSurf for actual coding. My primary IDE is intelliJ so I was really happen when they added windsurf into there.”
POSITIVE · features · Reddit · 2025-04-18
“Pairing it with Windsurf has made my life easier when starting from scratch.”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2025-04-11
“I have had great success building stuff on frameworks I didn't know about by using them. I mostly use Windsurf”
POSITIVE · performance · Reddit · 2025-02-13
“way easier to use Windsurf and just use @. It's more context efficient too. so many benefits to other coding tools”
POSITIVE · ease of use · Reddit · 2024-12-06
“I keep the repo open in a Cursor/Windsurf window for other edits I need.”
MIXED · features · Hacker News · 2024-12-06
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