Windsurf Editor Reviews

Summary: Helping a lot, but fails to stay focused on open folder, topic or chat, its helpful for any project with little bits of help it gets you really far, gets you to the finish line.

Positive: It's helpful for any project with little bits of help it gets you really far, gets you to the finish line.

Negative: Content awareness, chat focus, working folder awareness.

Summary: Overall I recommend using Codeium with your IDE! It has multiple features that aid when writing code whether it be improvement or learning!

Positive: Using Codeium has made refactor suggestions easy by having the ability to highlight specific sections of the code within an IDE! I specifically use VS Code and it has been working pretty smoothly. I also like having the option of having a chat box so that I can discuss other topics.

Negative: Codeium sometimes struggles to connect to my IDE and I am unable to use. I haven't been able to figure out the cause of this but sometimes I am unable to use Coddium for a couple days and then all of the sudden it is back.

Summary: Good experience, would definitely be my AI-powered editor of choice over Cursor. Composer mode would definitely be a useful feature.

Positive: Much better than Autocomplete and works across every editor platform. Does recognize context across files very well.

Negative: Takes a little bit of time to switch from muscle typing to reading the autocomplete and evaluating if it's what you want, if you know what you want

Summary: Very good, it has saved a significant amount of time, added value in terms of code and served as shortcut for documentation.

Positive: It gives me access to a number of different models, provides some local context to the model from your code. It helps solve coding problems, will often suggest fitting solutions. I like the chat functionality and the fact that it will answer generic questions outside of the tech domain.

Negative: It is the early days of consumer AI and the models are not as smart as they one day will be. It is possible to end up in a ignorance loop and waste some time, I wish it just admitted when it does not know the right answer. No chat support for Emacs. Would like to see that side get some attention.

Summary: Good alternative and useful sometimes, I like the select and explain functionality that they give us.

Positive: Good alternative to GitHub Copilot, VScode interface was very nice! The select and explain feature is very useful!

Negative: Nothing too far. Only silly issue is that I think it uses a port i use in my own environment.

Summary: This is an affordable alternative to GitHub Copilot that is often more intuitive and seamless to use. I love the chat interface and how it allows you to select different foundation models to interact with as some may be better at writing code while others at writing documentation.

Positive: - Chat interface to explain, analyze, and review code
- Made good suggestions for improving style
- Fast, context-aware code auto-completion
- Quick suggestions for writing unit-test, documentation, and refactoring your code

Negative: - Writing unit test is hit or sometimes miss and can require multiple generations
- For large codebase, you may have to specify the features you want in terms of bite-sized functions