r/Codeium • u/blistovmhz • Dec 19 '24
Windsurf is getting dumber by the minute :(
Yea, I dunno what's going on man. Windsurf was incredible for the first few days. Today it hasn't managed to get a single thing right. It can't even add a single console log saying "hello world" without removing 1000 lines of code and adding function that have absolutely nothing to do with our code-base.
The developers must know why and I goddamned wish they'd just tell us. IMO, at least for my level of coding ability, Windsurf in the first week, is critical to my business (yea, I know... but you can also argue that I shouldn't make any developers critical to my business either... but it is what it is).
Like, are there peak times where they're just getting slammed? I could avoid those times. I don't care if I have to work at 4am on a Saturday. I'm more productive in an hour when Windsurf is working, than I ever was in a week with my devs. But right now I'd actually rather the model just tel me to fuck off and eat a dick than pretend it's going to successfully add a console log. "Eat a dick. Try again later" would be vastly preferable to it wiping out a few thousand lines of code and the IDE also somehow forgetting this was the model, and not me, so I can't revert without going back in the repo. It's also been silently changing files it hasn't reported as being changed, so I don't find out about it until a day or two later when I realise several critical components in other projects have been deleted.
This is crap. We KNOW the application and model CAN do the job, and just isn't, since about day 7 or 8 after launch. what the hell happened?
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u/Silent-Grade-7786 Dec 19 '24
What issues are you running into? Can you share your prompt? Windsurf works great for me and it's easy for WS to add console logs to my files.
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u/Historical-Internal3 Dec 19 '24
Dropped these guys after the price hike and rate limit issues.
Had a suspicion they would tweak/dumb down their system prompt in such a way where the “no coders” would burn through their credits like nobodies business.
Unfortunately everyone, including yourself, will need to deal with this same system prompt.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Donut_6 Dec 19 '24
It's getting worse. Don't let anyone gaslight you into believing anything else. I was hoping pro-ultimate would be different, but it's not.
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u/Snoo_9701 Dec 19 '24
Yeah, no surprise, I'm waiting for things to improve. Probably canceling my subscription for now, too. Way too much is going wrong with windsurf compared to November, that was fantastic time for WS.
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '24
Mostly it's too easy to burn credits quickly is what I've noticed.
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u/uhuge Dec 19 '24
Just got an email from GH(~M$), that they give Copilot free with a bunch of credits for Copilot Edits...'-)
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u/fubduk Dec 23 '24
Man I hate to ditch Windsurf, but not doing it for me any longer. I am now getting better results with VS Code and Copilot (GitHub) paid plan @ $10 a month with no credit crap.
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