Some praise for Windsurf
Recently, there was some rage against the Windsurf, and I completely understand it. I also love good things cheap and hate them expensive.
However, I also want to give some bold words of appreciation to this code editor. I use it for my personal activities, and I have Cursor at work. In Windsurf, I have the majority of AIs available the next day after I read the news about them. In Cursor, there are definitely ChatGPTs and Claudes, but the number of alternatives is very limited. You can get Kimi 2.5 there and maybe Gemini 3.1-Pro, but that's it.
These days, I also see regular odes to Claude, and that all you need in life is Claude Code. I absolutely disagree with this recommendation. Having many LLMs available gives you protection from the risk of one of them degrading and providing poor results. Yet, Claude is also quite arrogant! It can recommend you go to sleep instead of doing the task, ignore your instructions, and more. With this image of a supreme model built by humanity, I have some demands that it doesn't meet.
After daily plans were introduced, I certainly had to shorten my usage of famous models, but I can't say that I feel helpless. I use these ones, and they do a great job while being relatively cheap or even free:
- GLM-5.1,
- DeepSeek V4,
- Kimi K2.6,
- Minimax M2.5,
- SWE-1.6.
Thank you, Windsurf!🙂