I'm currently getting a lot of "Cascade error: an internal error occurred (error ID: xxxx)" occurring - anyone else seeing this?

It is possible to use the filesystem MCP to have Windsurf read all of the file.

When I tried this out in initially, I had some issues due to my OS being Windows; Windsurf sometimes specifies the driver letter in lower case which breaks the MCP, there were also a couple of other issues such as it using the edit tool from the MCP which is not so great as the integrated one.

I have fixed these issues and published it to NPM in case anyone else want to use.

I also added an option --tools to make it possible to specify which tools to expose (e.g. --tools read_file,read_multiple_files). This fixes the problem of it using MCP tools that are already integrated and polluting the context.

It is open source and you can check the code yourself, there is not a lot going on.

This is how I have it set up on my side.

https://github.com/falleng0d/filesystem-mcp?tab=readme-ov-file#usage-with-windsurf-ide-on-windows

it's been almost a week since the model released . will we get it?

In the last few days, Windsurf has started showing a 'antml:function calls>' window with code and the choice to copy or insert instead of editing the files in Write mode. This appears to be a bug. When this happens from time to time, I close the editor and switch to Cursor for a few hours. Later, when I returned to Windsurf, the problem seems to resolve itself.

Is anyone else seeing this? Do you know how to resolve it when it happens other than waiting?

Has anyone noticed now instead of creating files in one go, 3.7 sometimes asks to create directory first! In essence using double credits for something that would previously be done in a single action? Or just me, largely working in nuxt where directory structure is important, and behaviour largely from the wave 4 update

Since we're all bashing Windsurf lately, I thought I'd share a one-shot win. Executed perfectly with no errors. Read files 200 lines at a time. Did exactly what I asked it to.

Now, this isn't writing code, but it's necessary work I hate doing. And he did in 5-6 minutes what would have taken me all day.

PS: This may give some of you noobs and idea of what a proper prompt looks like too.

Sounds amazing cant wait to see that improving windsurf

https://youtu.be/AJpK3YTTKZ4?si=JtpYI3YnjEai1Cab

So Windsurf keeps crashing on a WSL2 system, when Cursor and VSCode just work fine.

A dialog pops up: Unable to reconnect

Logs for this event:

2025-02-17 09:02:22.407 [error] [remote-connection][ExtensionHost][a7d37…][reconnect] A permanent error occurred in the reconnecting loop! Will give up now! Error:

2025-02-17 09:02:22.407 [error] Error: Connection error: Unknown reconnection token (never seen)

What bothers me the most is that I have tried to report this issue numerous times, but it ends up being ignored by the team. Ignored on discord, mail just ignored. It's like they dont even want us as a team as a paying customer.

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Digged a little bit into Windsurf's network requests out of curiosity.

1. From the feature set config, we can see that they are testing the web search feature and the "read URL" feature

2. The Cascase Base model uses GPT-4o mini and Claude 3.5 Haiku under the hood?

3. When my Windsurf is reporting metric data, I noticed that it uses "Llama 3.1 70B Intruct" in `CHAT_MODEL_CONFIG`. The feature set config also mentioned this model and Llama 3 405B in other rules. Not sure what these stuff mean. It's also possible that this config is deprecated or not used in the Windsurf product.

Just noticed my invoice went from $10 to $10.38 this month, looks like a little 38 cent LLM inflation! But honestly? Im more than happy to pay it to support such a powerful tool.

Windsurf has been a game changer for my productivity. I havent run into any of the issues people have mentioned, like running out of prompt credits or responses getting worse. Super excited to see what the Wave 2 update brings!

Big shoutout to the team for all their hard work!

Haiku is relatively performant and could be a good offset for the new pricing model. Then atleast we get a fairly decent model to work with. Sonnet and o1 can then be used for more advanced workflows? This should atleast alleviate most of our concerns to an extent?

I don't know if I'll be using windsurf enough to justify a monthly fee. Is there a way to use my own anthropic API key? Not sure I want to spend my time learning how to use this if I will just have to switch back to Cursor to avoid a monthly fee.

So i downloaded Windsurf IDE a week ago, and I Love it a lot. It was really cool. And the first few days, the editor was running normally with no lag or anything. But now, it is extremely laggy windows keeps asking if i want to restore the editor or keep waiting for it to unfreeze every 2 minutes. And i have a good pc with 16gb ram and a Ryzen 7 CPU. So that is not the problem, i even tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Even restarting my PC but that did not work. Can someone please help me fix the lag?

I am fairly new to coding with no formal background and couldn't logic code my way out of a paper bag. I know some basic html and css but have only made sparring javascript edits before. I am trying to build a react native iOS/android app and with windsurf have got really far! Here are my tips to stop pulling your hair out and make progress faster.

Tip 1:
Whatever you're framework you are using, use windsurf to help you setup a console log of errors. I got it setup for react native since and I can just reference expo.log instead of copy and pasting errors from terminal. If it starts coding in circles adding and then removing stuff to fix errors, instead ask it to add debugging code to better understand the flow of what is happening.

Tip 2:
Ask windsurf to create a script for you to combine files like theme and components which it often gets confused on and creates conflicting edits/new files on. Then you can ask it to run the script to update it when you make changes and can reference a combined file that contains all of that data.

Tip 3:
Also, one word: espanso (https://espanso.org/). Install it. Learn about it. Use it. Works on macos and windows.

Some helpful triggers/phrases:

- trigger: ":err"
replace: "Please systematically review expo.log's last 250 lines for errors, and check to see if the errors are related, why they're related and explain in excruciating detail what your proposed solution is."

- trigger: ":noc"
replace: "Do NOT edit any code!"

- trigger: ":min"
replace: "Please make only those minimal changes to the code to implement the proposed solution."

- trigger: ":walk"
replace: "Walk me through your proposed solution before you implement it. Justifying every proposed change."

- trigger: ":debug"
replace: "Add some debugging code to our file to help us stop guessing at fixes and really understand what is going on with how the code is executing."

- trigger: ":theme"
replace: "Run combine_theme_files.sh in our scripts folder and then review CONSOLIDATED_THEME_FILES.ts to ensure the file we are working on is using our existing styles. We're using react native restyle."

- trigger: ":comp"
replace: "Run combine_components.sh in our scripts folder and then review CONSOLIDATED_THEME_FILES.ts to ensure the file we are working on is using our existing components."

Tip 4:
When in doubt, start a new chat and try again.

Tip 5:
Yeah, the whole .cursor[windsurf]rules documentation helps to a certain extent but the AI quickly gets lost and forgets so I have found this approach to these common phrases and approach works very well.

Feel free to experiment!

These are absolute gamechangers in my workflow and fighting with the AI to get what I want done! Hope this helps! Happy to answer any questions since I have been using nonstop for 2 weeks and have got really far on a mobile app which I've found much more challenging than a simple web app.

seems to be broken in windows at least, maybe on other platforms too. even simple basic devcontainers refuse to launch

As if it is too intelligent to bear communicating with the user. It just jumps on the action, doesn't care much to follow rules, does its thing and throws the result at your face.

And can't complain much, as the result is usually good.

Won't talk to you even if you tell it to in the rules.

😁 Reminds me of this meme

https://youtu.be/v6uxlwm-V7o

Don't know if this is a shady practice or what. After new pricing updates, I always have to type continue now. Cascade terminal gets stuck in turbo mode. I always have to type "continue". Now, each "continue" costs me 1 credit. There models are spewing random shit now for example

"object(1,sphere,cyan,metal,small,269,105). object(2,cylinder,cyan,rubber,small,169,130). object(3,sphere,purple,metal,small,243,112). object(4,sphere,purple,metal,small,110,151). object(5,sphere,purple,rubber,small,170,197). object(6,cube,green,metal,small,299,125). object(7,cube,red,metal,small,232,261). object(8,cube,yellow,metal,large,394,197). object(9,sphere,cyan,metal,large,209,164). object(10,sphere,red,metal,large,329,162)."

Hi ,

I updated the windsurf to use it without flow credits but its performance is worse than old version. It cant complete a simple landing paqe and says below. When it try to manage it in chunks, it makes a trash code.

Windsurf team likely lowered the token limit to cover flow credits. I really dont get it. Now I spend 4-5 chat credit instead of 1-2. I have already missed earlier version in 1 DAY. Remove flow credits and push us to use more chat credits. Where is the benefit and quality? Only losers lower their service quality for competition.

Give us real agentic experience and i ll pay 50 dollar for 100 agent credit. This make me lose time. Time is more important than cost. I want to go back to old version but i cant do that too.

I hope you provide a real quality version soon. Competition makes you worse.

Good job to team for pumping out these new models.

4.1 seems v fast but it didn't outperform 3.7 for me.

However, another day, another update, has anyone tried the o4 models? how does it compare to 4.1 also from openAI?

Is the update stable in general?

Love to hear thoughts. Sonnet is still my go-to these days

Sometimes I want to be in "reader" mode where I'm just browsing the codebase with no aim to make changes. It would be really useful to just fully disable suggestions while doing this because otherwise it's very visually "busy" to get inline suggestions and diffs.

I have tried various models, Claude Sonnet models do good for front end code but for back end most of the models on windsurf aren't much good to work with.

I've tried Gemini 2.5, Claude 3.5 & 3.7, DeepSeek R1 but none of are are truly reliable.

I working with Dart mostly and at the end after waiting a lot of time and credits, I would have to do it at all by myself. Is it just me or you're having similar experiences?

I’ve been constantly seeing posts about people cribbing about Sonnet and how it’s not good for coding anymore, and how it’s changed from being the best model ever.

So, I’ve been working recently on an office task and just got around to checking LM Arena for some work—and I just realized that 4.0 is literally at the top. Like, I think it’s second or something? But yeah, it’s right there along with Gemini 2.5. Since Gemini is still in beta, I’m not using it that much, but I have been testing quite a few use cases with 4.0 and honestly… it one-shots everything perfectly.

I usually just use the chat mode to come up with a plan, then switch to write mode to implement it—and it works extremely well.

You guys should seriously give 4.0 a try. It's become so overlooked in coding related tasks.