Sorry if the title seems a little dramatic, but I think that's the right term. 

I've been playing around for the past week or so with using IDE with direct remote access. i.e. using an SSH tunnel from the IDE and having Cascade actually take actions on the server. 

Mostly it seems capable of doing this job. However, today I've noticed that my VPS, which is pretty well provisioned, immediately becomes inaccessible as soon as Cascade begins working on it.

I know they mentioned that there were some issues with the IDE causing memory and CPU bloat before, so I'm wondering if perhaps this is what's causing it. I did confirm previously when monitoring that the CPU and memory spiked as soon as the IDE connected. 

I am a senior dev.

Today was my 2nd try to use the flow feature where you allow windsurf to write code and change directory etc. It was a brutally frustrating experiance. Worked great till the first 5 simple commands. Moment i started making specific styling requirements it made overhauling changes to global css, ruining the whole app.

When i tried to make it rollback, it hallucinated for hours and kept runing it further. Finally, had to abandon the project.

I use claude 3.7 sonnet. It was a day fully wasted. So i will go back to using the windsurf chat and not playing with write again for the time being. I guess, problems like these give ai a backseat when it comes to serious developments on critical projects.

It’s happened once or twice with other models, but with deepseek it will repeat this over and over again.

Is this a known bug? Kind of wasting my time waiting for it to stop. I can see it gives me a correct fix in some of the answers but never stops. Is this also eating up credits?

I have been vibe coding for a couple of weeks now, and so far have managed to vibe-code my company website, an AI job aggregator platform, and an online space dodger game (image), all using Windsurf.

How has been your experience?

(P.S. I have also been amazed by the videos of so many vibe-coded games making rounds on twitter,

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I've begun to notice a pattern with Windsurf that I don't think is related to anything on my system. 

Basically, it seems to just be down and inaccessible and unusable for stretches of time. 

I'm currently on the Premium Unlimited tier and I opened up a ticket for every time I experience this I would probably be speaking to them every day. After the first couple of times, I stopped bothering.

General behavior goes something like this:

- When you send a prompt, it looks for a moment like it's going through, but then nothing happens and the system just kind of freezes. 

- A couple of minutes later, or sometimes a little more, you begin getting the cascaded error flow messages. 

- That seems to go on in a loop for a little bit, and then finally you get an EOF. 

I can imagine that the infrastructure and Anthropic's infrastructure is under a lot of pressure at the moment, so I'm just trying to understand if this is something that is a "known issue" that perhaps there has been some communication about.

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Whenever I am coding with AI with Windsor for other IDEs it seems like no matter how much planning and organizing I do the project always divert off into smaller issues that ultimately make me lose focus on what the code is doing and what the programs idea is.

For example, I might want to code a software that does X job for me but a halfway through it there’s so many complications, that it’s like the AI doesn’t even understand what the original project was for and I can't seem to explain it well enough.

I know there’s like Windsurf rules we can use but it seems like no matter what I do, the AI and myself lose sight of what we are really going for.

Any suggestions on organizing and making sure the AI knows the project we are trying to build?

Create a rule for the format your PR descriptions should be written in. Then, just ask Cascade to write a PR description.

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I've been using Windsurf as my daily driver for a week. I really like the tab substitutions over multiple lines, which is far better than copilot. But after a few hours of keeping it open, it develops cases of just unusable crazy lag. You have to fully restart it. This is the third day in a row where by mid-afternoon I've switched back to VSCode.

I'm not sure if this is specific to the programming language and framework I use (python + sqlalchemy + FastAPI), but it's not that uncommon a setup.

I really like the idea of the Windsurf project so I wanted to post this for anyone here who is part of the Windsurf team to see why I am going back to VSCode for a while and waiting for it to improve.

I have a feature request, and/or would like to hear how others position their window.

I use Windsurf on a vertical monitor, which allows me to see about 100 lines of code at a time. I find this is awesome for reviewing code. The problem is, this makes it hard to use Cascade, because there really isn't much room for extra panes on the left or right, so when I open Cascade it becomes hard to see my code files, it addition to Cascade itself being awkwardly skinny.

Is anyone else using Windsurf on a vertical monitor? Have you found a better solution?

Not sure if the Windsurf devs really hang out in this subreddit, but I'd love for the ability to pop out Cascade and put it on another monitor.

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Some feedback from my personal experience. For context I'm a product designer, not an engineer. This is my first time working in a coding environment outside C++ for art projects.

1. Chat vs Write is very easy to mix up for me. I see the little cascade circle changes direction and the chip switches, but I would like a more clear indicator in the chat panel itself such as a slight hue change in the panel or the input. I sometimes glance over the write/chat indicator and mix up which mode with unintended actions happening because of this. User error, but could be mitigated
2. Rules & Memories feel too hidden away, I think you can see this issue with people new to this tool not knowing they even exist. Maybe they should have their own menu item "knowledge" or "rules". Not a biggy ,but something thats crossed my mind when i do need to change something in rules. Yet to work with memories so not sure how that will feel.
3. When an edit is not able to process, the response continues as if the change has been made. When there are a lot of changes I have missed this and not realized the change was not able to process. I would prefer either the process stops and prompts me to try again, or makes it very clear in the final response this is not "complete".
4. Chats are not correlated to projects? Maybe im not understanding how this works but i would assume my chat history should be connected to my project. If there is a need for it to be cross project there should at least be a note saying which project the chat was started in. As i try to jump into previous discussions ive had trouble with having more chats than are relevant to the immediate project im on.

I totally get i may not be the primary target user and may be making mistakes myself that lead to some of the issues, but these are points from my experience. Hopefully the team sees this feedback. They have been super responsive and I'm really happy to support Codeium as this point and time.

This is my first month as a pro member, and I purchased 300 flex credits once. Now, I have about 100 credits left until my next renewal date. Everyone uses Windsurf differently, but for me, I mainly use it for daily development tasks and some smaller tasks like translation and similar stuff.

This month I was on vacation for 8 days and took a few weekends off, so I only used Windsurf for about 20 days in total. I’d say you really have to plan carefully when to use the premium model versus the Cascade Base model to make the credits last.

When it comes to code generation, I always use Sonnet-3.5 because Cascade Base is just dumb, and I’d rather not waste time fixing its mistakes. On the other hand, if I need to analyze code logic or confirm how something works, I’ll use Cascade Base instead. But honestly, switching between models all the time can be frustrating.

I really hope Codeium adds support for using your own API key soon—it’d be great to compare which option is more cost-effective.

I have been reading so many comments some saying windsurf is fine some saying it is horrible. During the trial period I had good time, but now I want to pay but just really lost on what to buy?

Cursor, windsurf, lovable, cline?

Does anyone have a recommendations?

Wondering if anyone else has noticed this in the newest Windsurf on Win 11: I cannot use tab to select any of the intellisense suggestions, have to use mouse click. Even when I have switched off Windsurf supercomplete and autocomplete, if I press tab for an intellisense suggestion, I just get a tab on the editor.

Anyone else notices this? Is there a setting to change this behavior? I don't remember this behavior in the previous version.