Cognition (Devin AI) to Acquire Windsurf

Does anyone actually use Windsurf? I know a ton of people on Cursor, Cline, Roo, Claude Code... but zero people in my engineering circles have even mentioned trying Windsurf.

For me it was substantially better than Cursor. Their RAG/code indexing/whatever implementation is better (Cursor seems to completely fall apart on larger codebases, unless you keep a very detailed cursorrules file). The cmd+tab was also substantially better. Plus it's cheaper than using Cline.

But with all this changing of hands, I'm not sure I can trust it going forward at all, so I guess it's back to looking for alternatives.

It has been my go to IDE over all others.

They had released their own model which was free and good enough a couple of weeks back.

Obviously will need to look for alternatives.

I tried it once and couldn’t understand why it exists. Neither windsurf nor cursor seem to offer anything Cline doesn’t, and the real Microsoft developed tools like Pylance are also broken and can’t be replaced with shitty AI.

I was using Windsurf in Pycharm, until I switched to Claude Code / Gemini CLI last week. I am also finding that Copilot with Sonnet 4 is pretty on par to Windsurf.

https://sweep.dev/ is better than Copilot/Windsurf in PyCharm (disclaimer I am one of the founders)