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OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google

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903 points rcchen | 2 comments | 11 Jul 25 21:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.566s | source
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asdev ◴[11 Jul 25 22:03 UTC] No.44537218[source]▶
I never knew anyone who used Windsurf. These AI acquisitions have been unbelievable(in a bad way). WIX acquired some garbage Lovable.dev clone for 80 million. I think many of us are waiting for this bubble to pop(economy will likely pop too)
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manquer ◴[12 Jul 25 01:41 UTC] No.44538577[source]▶
Everyone has a niche, Windsurf is the only large provider if you are a Jetbrains shop.

There are some alternatives like continue.dev or Jetbrains own AI offering but no Cursor or Claude Code ( Sonnet 3.7/4) you can get through Jetbrains plugin or others, but Anthropic does not provide support same with cursor.

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1. rafaelmn ◴[12 Jul 25 09:56 UTC] No.44540755[source]▶
GitHub copilot now has agents in jetbrain (not sure about stable - my nightly does).

Jetbrains Junie is supposedly the same thing but no Rider and that's my current project so didn't get into that yet.

Windsurf was just disappointingly bad in intellij (like any other plugin I've tried so far)

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2. allertonm ◴[12 Jul 25 17:13 UTC] No.44543416[source]▶
The copilot agent stuff in IntelliJ works relatively well in my experience, they managed to implement a quite cursor-like “accept/reject” UI in a plugin, you know, forking IDEA. There are some areas like getting it to use git tools where cursor works more smoothly but you can coax Copilot into producing the same results. I’m just generally happier working in IntelliJ vs VSCode so I’ve tended to favour Copilot.

Never tried Windsurf in it’s recent form but we did evaluate it when it was still called Codeium and everyone liked Copilot better.