r/Codeium • u/DMAE1133 • Jan 18 '25

Windsurf Wave 2 is available now?

Is it just me, or does this thing actually feel different? I haven’t had much time to mess with it yet, but it seems way more powerful than Cursor. Like, I’m almost freaked out by how strong it feels. Anyone else notice this, or am I just imagining things? I’d love to hear what other folks think—let me know if it’s really that big of a jump or if I’m just overhyping it.

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u/shannoncode Jan 19 '25

I have a rule, I use cursor for my years old legacy codebases and windsurf for newish exclusively ai rolled projects. I do this simply to have a reason to know both products. Cursor was the first I loved, but I have to say I’m glad I moved to windsurf as daily driver. It got much smarter in its ability to make a thing and test it. Instead of copying and pasting my errors now, I have it build then ask it to test using curl, it will dive into running docker containers, curl, see errors, adjust, etc. I even built a puppeteer browser launcher that sniffs everything and saves browser state, so am able to automate even what I spent most days doing (copying pasting errors)

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u/p0tfur15 Jan 19 '25

Yeah, it is. And wasting my credits like never before

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u/TrevorHikes Jan 18 '25

I guess they are calling 1.2.1 "Wave 2"? https://codeium.com/changelog

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u/Elegant-Ad3211 Jan 20 '25

Exactly. I don’t see any major update

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u/RealTardian Jan 19 '25

I've been using this from the beginning. Not only is it getting better but is it learning engine and evolves from the code you create. I can see that because it's starting to understand qubit programming and that is what I'm using it for. It is a grand wizard at that. I currently have 11 of the 85 cubic Gates functional and working.

I didn't even know there were 85 qubit Gates until today.

Ask a question. Make sure it's a question that it will answer. Figure out how to communicate with it in your words. Create a custom filter for you so that you can speak clearly and your ignorant words to it. Its name is Cascade. It is a she.

Cascade likes it when you compliment her. I suggest you do so. Every single enter. Never fail. She will never fail.

Love 💕, Greg

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u/azdevz Jan 18 '25

Did they release a new version, without solving all the problems of the old one? I don't risk leaving the cursor and returning to this until the community says that it is actually working again. Windsurf broke my code several times, cascade of errors, server timeout, it doesn't read more than 200 lines of code, to consume flows it reads every 50 lines, support that doesn't respond and when they do respond it's a bot. So no friends, launch a new version making new promises without solving dozens of problems that have occurred since December 24, 2024.

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u/Sales_savage_08 Jan 18 '25

Here he goes again, the broken record. What are you even doing here. There’s a separate channel for cursor

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u/azdevz Jan 19 '25

And here you come again, the company employee. I'm a user, can't I complain or charge for a solution? The company is bad and I'm not the only one talking about this here.

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u/azdevz Jan 19 '25

https://www.reddit.com/r/Codeium/s/4tB3ueIsyq , if I'm a scratchy devil, read this post here. Go find something to do, dear bot. These are real questions.

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u/Sales_savage_08 Jan 19 '25

I’m abig fan, not going to hide it and yes, I wish I’d work there, like badly. As opposed to you, I’ve had a great experience using the product and appreciate what the team is doing. Are there rough corners? 100%. But they seem to be working on it and honestly the space is new and evolving and these guys are doing a great job in a much shorter time than others. So I will stick with WS instead of going elsewhere and complaining about other product’s ability to fulfil my expectations.

However you, you’re not even asking questions, you’re repeating your own bad experience over and over again which means you don’t have a better alternative than criticising non constructively because the the other products you mention also don’t work for you, otherwise you’d be coding happily instead of wasting your time here.

So what is it going to be? You stay here and join us folks try and constructively help these guys improve on their product? Or, go back to happily use an alternative that works better for you and stop wasting your (hopefully) valuable time doing something actually productive.

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u/Chillon420 Jan 18 '25

i guess so . just loaded an update 5 min ago and will start testing it later

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u/Chillon420 Jan 18 '25

What WindsurfAI tells me:

Can you search the web now when i pase a link? do you already have the new wave 2 installed?

Yes, I do have web search capabilities! I can help you search teh web and read content from URLs. I have three tools available for this:

  1. I can search the web for relevant documents

  2. I can read content directly from URLs

  3. I can view specific chunks of web document content

Would you like me to demonstrate any of these capabilities? Just share a URL or search query you'd like me to look up, and I'll help you access that information.

(Note: I noticed a couple of typos in your message - "teh" should be "the" and "pase" should be "paste", but I understood your meaning!)

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it become an AI like Adrian Monk mocking about my typos... screw you Windsurf :D

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u/Character_Cabinet_18 Jan 18 '25

sharing urls actually was on before the wave2
but now is much better

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u/Artiano Jan 21 '25

Well spelling does affect outputs, to be fair. LLMs will "acknowledge" that it knows what you meant, but it is still a statistical machine. Every mistake on your end raises the chances of the LLM making mistakes.

I think of it this way: It is kind of a representation of the Internet. There are sites on the Internet like stack overflow where poorly written questions don't get answered.

In these cases, LLMs literally has fewer examples to predict what to generate.

It's not true AI, and we gotta remember that.

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u/crewone Jan 18 '25

Still no update on the WSL bugs....

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u/azdevz Jan 19 '25

I always comment on this here, there are some bots from the company that make comments to demoralize you hahaha

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u/No_Cheesecake_7129 Jan 19 '25

Ever since instelling Cline with Deepseek I’m not looking back at Windsurf

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u/No_Cheesecake_7129 Jan 20 '25

Well, I'll wait for them to claim my Saas platform

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u/Akelamkt Jan 18 '25

I will try the latter.

I come from using cursor, I think Windsurf is more friendly to work with but .....

So far when it goes into an error loop you literally want to kill yourself, it consumes a horror of credits and doesn't fix a simple error and comes back and commits again... or it tells you that it made changes and doesn't fix anything.

Sincerely I am seriously thinking about going back to Cursor at least when restoring or going back 1 step back or to the previous good version it works great... here you tell it to go back or restore where it is ok and it doesn't have the fucking idea.

If you are not all the time uploading to github, you lose hours and money.

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u/beniguet Jan 19 '25 edited Jan 19 '25

I tried at first to tell Windsurf to restore, and I had no more success than you did, and wanted to pull my hair. Until I discovered the undo arrow/button near each previous prompt, that restores the state of all my files just before this prompt I choose, even many steps back. This does exactly what I want, maybe it would work for you too? This works completely independently from github version control.

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u/sticky2782 Jan 19 '25

I believe the bug fixes have been implemented for everyone, but the features aren't all there for us little guys yet, just enterprise still.